Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ashes of Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. There, on May 13, 1985, readers may remember, a police helicopter dropped a bomb on 6221 Osage after its occupants, members of a black organization called Move, resisted orders to vacate. Six adults and five children were killed. The blast also started a fire that destroyed 60 other houses...
...Harvard women's soccer team took three early strikes and an out against Stanford last Saturday, but sparked enough firepower to blast San Francisco the next...
...area in which binds have already been loosened is the media. For days, the local press was not even allowed to report the invasion of Kuwait. But now they have the unprecedented freedom to blast Iraq, to record the schism in the Arab world and to report on the troubles the P.L.O. has created for itself by supporting Saddam. These liberties, however, have not been extended to reports on domestic affairs...
...aftershocks from the Jubail blast and firestorm are still being felt. Fearful of sabotage, Saudi Aramco, the country's national oil company, has since refused to hire any new Shi'ite workers, who until recently made up 40% of its work force. The company has traditionally been the only major employer in the Eastern province willing to employ Shi'ites and thus has served as an important path of upward mobility. "Shi'ite leaders are trying to convince the powers that be that ((Jubail)) was the act of a few individuals," says a U.S. official. "Unfortunately, the whole community...
...Iraq north of the Kuwait border into what some Air Force officers call a "parking lot" -- an area that has been completely leveled. F-117A fighter-bombers take out Iraqi antiaircraft missiles. Tomahawk cruise missiles from the battleship Wisconsin hit communications centers, truck junctions, munitions depots. B-52 bombers blast targets with highly accurate missiles. Most important, a variety of weapons * throw a suffocating "electronic blanket" over the area, jamming and disrupting Iraqi military communications (but not U.S. communications, which operate on different frequencies...