Word: blasted
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George Bush's popularity is vaporizing faster than teardrops in a blast furnace. Matched against an unnamed challenger in recent polls, the President actually loses the 1992 election. Unfortunately, you cannot beat somebody with nobody, and Bush still trumps the current Democratic field in head-to-head pairings. But each bit of bad economic news heartens the opposition and reveals a paralyzed Administration whose divisive domestic policy sessions have come to resemble dining-hall food fights...
Warden was just going back for seconds on both hotcakes and eggs when this blast shuddered by under the floor and rattled the cups It had become very quiet and everybody had stopped eating and looked up at each other...
Usually, though, the Tree Falling In The Forest Ed Page gets filled with inane commentary on less weighty subjects. In 1987, for instance, Alvar Mattei wrote about his recently developed pinball addiction. Mattei acknowledged that as a child, he preferred to "vaporize little green monsters" and "blast space rocks...
...answer writ small, according to indictments issued last week in Washington and Scotland, is two Libyan intelligence officials: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. They allegedly fabricated the bomb in Malta, packed it in a suitcase, and sent it on a circuitous route to the final blast...
...change that stance; he devoted half of his 34-minute speech to a recitation of the oppression of Jews through centuries and indeed millenniums. There was little in his speech to suggest a willingness to compromise, and he followed up on Friday with a bitter blast at Syria's brutality and tyranny. But Shamir was playing less to world opinion than expressing deep convictions that also work for him politically back home. He had appeased Israeli peaceniks by attending the conference while reassuring his hard-line supporters that he remains unbending on issues that count...