Word: blasted
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...Harvard attempted a comeback in the second inning against the Huskies (8-4), Captain Tom Konjoyan cranked a line drive that appeared to clear the left-centerfield fence. The umpires ruled the blast a ground rule double, however, killing the momentum of the rally...
...recent debut of the unabashedly right-wing publication Peninsula predictably provoked a broadside of "liberal" condemnations, with The Crimson firing the offensive. Before continuing to blast the staff of Peninsula for asserting that society needs a shared, common morality and that it is possible to base morality in truth, the left-wing elements at Harvard ought to examine the implications of their own position more carefully...
...feeling is that the issue of the hostages is moving toward a solution," said Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani last week. With those words, Rafsanjani stoked the rumor mill that has been working at full blast since late February, when the Tehran Times called for the unconditional release of the 18 Western hostages, eight of them Americans, held in Lebanon for as long as five years. The day after the editorial appeared, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hizballah, a Lebanese group that holds some of the victims, added to the hopeful speculation by saying, "We have...
...characteristic blast, Aurel Braun and Richard Day, two respected political scientists at the University of Toronto's Center for Russian and East European Studies, recently called Gorbachev a loser who has been "mishandling reforms and desperately trying to cling to power." Variations on that theme, usually delivered more in sorrow than in anger, are gaining currency. A veteran of the U.S. intelligence community last week said Gorbachev's "blunders are plunging Russia into a new Time of Troubles." That is an ominous reference to nearly a decade of Kremlin intrigue, civil unrest and international conflict in the 17th century...
Finally, let's journey to the innermost chambers of our own rooms. I have had some particularly inconsiderate neighbors. They would blast music at the most inopportune times. For example, I have been awakened to George Michael belting out, "I had a hard day, such a hard day..." at 8 a.m. on Monday morning; I have also been disturbed by a thumping bass line preceded by Tone Loc declaring "Let's do it" on Wednesday morning at 2:30 a.m. during reading period...