Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are everywhere, and always going full blast. They play nothing but frenzied music, day and night. They are inescapable. The innocent can get battered with jazz at the newsstand, rock at the bus stop and the diabolical thump-and-shriek of disco before and after. "Shake, shake/ Shake your booty" blares forth from one of them, but not quite in time to drown out another one that is roaring out with "Ring my bell/ Ring my bell, my bell/ Ting-a-ling-a-ling." It is as though the Great God Muzak has berserked out of the dentist...
...Hannifin has been covering NASA since it was NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, until 1958). Recalls Hannifin: "We used to talk about the 'new' turbojet engines, and, gee whiz! a supersonic airplane even seemed possible." Over the years, he met Rocket Wizard Wernher von Braun, covered blast-offs from Cape Kennedy...
Other questioners asked why the U.S. could not fire a nuclear missile that would blast Skylab to smithereens. The official answer: this is prohibited by international treaty. Refusing to accept that, some enthusiasts tried anti-Skylab measures of their own. Buryl Payne, director of Massachusetts' Institute for Psychic Energetics, used a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., radio station to tie in with 150 other stations and reach some 40 million listeners in seeking a mass psychic push to nudge Skylab into a higher orbit. In the broadcast, listeners were instructed to "relax, visualize yourselves as being in contact with Skylab and then...
...NASA engineers studied a plan to send a McDonnell Douglas F-15, America's hottest jet fighter, into a computer-guided supersonic climb to about 80,000 feet and then blast Skylab out of the sky with a non-nuclear rocket. This idea was dropped when the scientists concluded that Skylab would merely be blown into more pieces scattered over a wider area, increasing rather than reducing the danger of damage on earth...
...political image maker could have hoped for a noisier sendoff. Last week General Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 54, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, narrowly escaped death from an unidentified terrorist's bomb as he motored to NATO military headquarters in Casteau, Belgium. The blast missed Haig's Mercedes 600 limousine but blew a crater in the road, slightly injured three of his security guards and damaged their car. Two days later, Haig was jetting about Europe in a U.S. Air Force DC-9, receiving 17-gun farewell salutes. Said British Major General Geoffery B. Wilson...