Word: blankets
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...make a blanket statement like 'no ethnic organizations in the fair' makes no sense, and I think there is enough evidence to claim discrimination," she wrote in an e-mail message to the Undergraduate Council...
Several years later, when the three labs, the University of Arizona among them, produced their wet-blanket dates for the Turin shroud, a possibility flashed through Garza-Valdes' mind. What if the shroud too had a "bioplastic" varnish--and the labs had been fooled into decreeing an object younger than it actually was? In May 1993 Garza-Valdes traveled to Turin, microscope in hand, and was put in touch with Giovanni Riggi, the microanalyst who had parceled out the 1988 samples. Riggi let Garza-Valdes examine a tiny piece of shroud that he assured him came from the same batch...
...comfortably lying on a blanket in the grass surrounded by his roommates, appears to be lazily enjoying his Discman and the weather. However, his innocence is feigned--he is up to nefarious activities...
...would cause a tsunami (commonly called a tidal wave) hundreds of feet high, flooding the coastlines of surrounding continents. "Where cities stood," he said, "there would be only mudflats." A land hit, he calculated, would blast out a crater at least 30 miles across and throw up a blanket of dust and vapor that would blot out the sun "for weeks, if not months...
...Provost's office has also given blanket approval to certain organizations within Harvard, such as the Art Museums, which routinely use Harvard's name in joint catalogs with other museums...