blast
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In a group thread about digging through digital archives, one friend asked if we found any fun blasts from the past.
In 2015, blasts at warehouses containing flammable chemicals in the port city of Tianjin killed more than 170 people and injured 700 others.
From Barron's
Nasa says the earliest the rocket can blast off is 6 February, but there are also more launch windows later that month, as well as in March and April.
From BBC
But they are an anomaly, as out of date as the Japanese soldier who came blasting from a Pacific cave 10 years after V-J Day.
Asia is also bracing for a blast of cold weather.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.