1.   A dynamite blast shatters the silence.

2.   Steunenberg was killed by a dynamite blast, allegedly in retaliation for his mishandling of a mining strike.

3.   Stopping his golf cart on a bluff road recently, he pointed to graders carving into higher ground and a sign warning of dynamite blasts.

4.   You can take a dynamite blast.

5.   Police said eight other prospectors have been rescued from the pit and an adjacent one that caved in at dawn Friday, apparently due to illegal dynamite blasts.

6.   A fourth dynamite blast is planned after the third fails to remove a huge boulder.

7.   A third dynamite blast failed Tuesday to remove a huge boulder that trapped a bus in a highway tunnel in northern Japan.

8.   After more than a dozen dynamite blasts, the brick building slowly collapsed in a wave, sending a giant dust cloud for blocks.

9.   Desperate efforts to free the bus failed again Monday as a second dynamite blast intended to dislodge a huge slab of rock proved as ineffective as the first.

10.   Finally, after four dynamite blasts had broken up the huge slab of rock over the tunnel, workers on Wednesday started shoveling through the rubble.