Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncover the activities of organized crime in Arizona, and like the blood-stained pavement where he was killed, his memory has now begun to fade as well. Two years later, the asphalt where Bolles was murdered has been repaired, and the Clarendon Hotel, in whose parking lot the bomb blast occurred, has commemorated the event in a strangely appropriate if unintentional fashion--by changing its name in recognition of the unfavorable publicity the hotel received as the murder site...
...those occasions, like Christmas, that required some thing a little more festive, the medieval kitchen changed from geing a simple blast furnace for the roasting of large animals into a combination P-3 lab and hardhat-only construction site...
...foot in this club, let alone debut in it." Others envision more concrete rewards: "my folks promised me a car for this." "My Great-Aunt Alicia would turn in her grave if I didn't" is a common explanation. A few are cheerful--"This should be a blast"; most are; resigned. Only one fails to see the point in any of it. "It's so silly--my boyfriend's already asked me if he could ask me to marry him someday...
...okay to ski tomorrow," Joe Capp, owner of the Snow Pine, told us. "They're going to blast it all away this afternoon." Blast? Oh yeah, didn't you know, they fire Howitzer shells into the side of the mountain to make the snow come down. That way you didn't take the chance that someone would be skiing or standing in the way of an area with avalanche potential. Predictability was the key-take the risk out of it; shoot it down from those little wooden sheds on the snow cliff-with the World War II heavy guns mounted...
Having already sent 46 ex-prisoners to the U.S. in October, Castro was clearly signaling his desire for improved relations with the U.S. But he was also responding to steady criticism over his policy of domestic political oppression. The most recent blast came last month from London-based Amnesty International, which estimated that more than 3,000 dissidents are being held in Cuban jails and charged that "a substantial number of Cuban prisoners are now among the longest-serving political prisoners in the world today." As far as Fidel is concerned, his new offer would settle those issues. He claims...