Word: blast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims. For years the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth had led protests against segregation in Birmingham. Eventually, he called on King for help, and the demonstrations intensified. Robert Chambliss responded, hoping his act of terror, the 21st bombing in Birmingham since 1956, would leave blacks begging for segregation. In fact, the blast energized the civil rights movement. Lee's eloquent film does justice to the young martyrs and to those who guaranteed that the girls' deaths, while tragic, would not also be meaningless...
...that they have to move with the times before the times run away from them. In any case, kids will be kids, even in the 21st century. You have only to go to the Olympic Village, where the game room is packed with students pounding away at Blast City screens and waiting to get into the cyber Surf Shack nearby, to be reminded that the Games are an unchanging festival of youth. The athletes' quarters resemble the student union at some Fun U., where the most prominent magazine on sale is Tiger Beat and healthy young people drift around...
With the extra attacker on the ice, the Terriers dropped into their power-play umbrella and worked the puck around the Crimson zone. It only took a few passes before Tom Poti, the Tournament MVP, rifled a right-point blast toward the Harvard net. Camped out in the low slot was freshman Nick Gillis who tipped in the game-winner, opening the flood gates to the B.U. bench...
...such attacks would not wipe out all of Iraq's hidden poisons and gases, because the U.S. does not know where they are. Nor are bombs likely to topple Saddam or force him to change his ways. The planes might blast their targets, but if Saddam still maintains his defiance, Clinton has to ponder what the next American move will be. In fact, decision makers in Washington are still wrestling with the possibility that Saddam actually wants the U.S. to attack. He could then lay out his corpses for television cameras, strike a victim's pose and fend off forever...
...anarchy manifests itself in the mundane: the unsignaled lane change by the driver next to you, the guy who tailgates you if you go too slow, and the person ahead who brakes abruptly if you go too fast--each transgression accented by a flip of the bird or a blast of the horn. Sixty-four percent of respondents to a recent Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety poll say people are driving less courteously and more dangerously than they were five years...