Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms of a temporary truce reached with Iraq three weeks ago, Baghdad is not to fly any fixed-wing airplanes until a permanent cease-fire agreement is signed. Because Iraq's roads and bridges are so chewed up, Baghdad is allowed to use helicopters. But using the choppers to blast rebels, U.S. officials said, violated the spirit of the understanding. President Bush said the issue might stall the withdrawal of American forces from the gulf. His admonition followed an earlier threat by the U.S. and Britain to attack any Iraqi units that used chemical weapons against the rebels...
...only thing more embarrassing to the Democrats than the spectacle of seven dwarfs scrambling for the presidential nomination 20 months before the election is the absence of any candidates at all. At this point in the run-up to the 1988 voting, a bomb blast in Des Moines' Savery Hotel would have wiped out much of the Democratic field of candidates and most of the political press corps. Now Iowans just sit and watch the hogs fatten...
...frayed, decisions were postponed, depression was common. A real crisis arose when Iraq started dumping Kuwaiti oil into the gulf in January. The Saudis and Kuwaitis argued over what to do. It took 48 hours of patient haggling, but Gnehm finally got both sides to agree: U.S. bombers would blast Al-Ahmadi oil facility's manifolds to stem the flow. Gnehm's best trick was getting Kuwait's Oil Minister to believe the idea had been his all along...
Cheer up guys--and this is an order! Currier House is fun, great--a blast, even...
Nibbling the chocolate edges, I saved the blast of pure peanut butter for last. It was a chocolate orgasm. It satisfied my desires. But what about the consequences? I mean, two Reeses Peanut Butter Cups were well on their way through my digestive system, and, in my hand, I held what was left. I felt awfully guilty. Guilty for my greed, guilty for my poor diet, but, mainly, guilty for producing what was, with respect to the foodstuff it had contained, a lot of garbage...