Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene is so horribly familiar. A sunny afternoon. Shoppers crowding a city street. Then the deadly blast of a bomb, carnage and chaos. Neither the former peacemaking Labor government nor the present security-minded Likud government has figured out a way to stop...
...could deliver progress toward peace together with the security Israelis crave. While he has borne much of the criticism for stalling peace negotiations, he laid the blame for the bombing squarely on Arafat, who has lately made vigilance against Islamist militants a low priority. Within hours of the blast, Netanyahu responded with a program of unprecedentedly tough retaliatory measures. These amounted, in Arafat's view, to "a declaration of war," a characterization Netanyahu didn't even bother to dispute. "You can't have peace," he declared, "when people are blown to smithereens...
...fatal blast occurred at 6:45 p.m. and shot flames into the air, sending four injured persons--Com Electric employees John Collins, Joe Crawler and Jim Cardenelli and a police officer whose name was not released--to Mass. General Hospital...
...Electric employee Douglas Pollander was underground responding to an explosion when a second blast occurred an hour later. A resulting fire killed Pollander and injured three of his co-workers and a police officer, according to Com Electric spokesperson Peter Diamond. Officials on the scene said Pollander's body remained trapped for over an hour...
Cambridge Police and Fire and Com Electric utility workers responded to reports of the blast and immediately traced the cause of the explosion to three "blown out" cables. Dimond last night said the cause of these "faults" was still under investigation...