Word: blasted
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...days and nights before the blast, the grownups had pursued a remarkable will to die. Over and over they fiddled with three tanks of propane that were hooked to an electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they swallowed sedatives, then arranged themselves in a cross around a queen-size bed, only to rise in bleary frustration when the detonator fizzled. Finally, they blew themselves to kingdom come. For them that would be the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, nine light-years from Quebec. According to the doctrines of the Solar Temple, they will...
...only was their involvement useful for their futures, but it was also "a blast" in Ilagan's words and "a thrill" in Fertik...
Although temperatures are expected return to normal within the next couple days, the spring sports teams must make the best of the current situation until the playing fields rebound from the winter blast...
...days: three major crises in the peace negotiations; a war scare with Syria; a domestic political scandal that threatens to indict his closest aides for corruption; the alienation at one time or another of virtually all his friends, constituents and foreign allies. In the aftermath of Friday's blast, many were debating who bore the most blame and whether the peace process, already damaged goods, was now beyond repair...
...growing power in the Persian Gulf, notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "A military response could escalate anti-American feeling throughout the Gulf, already high because of American support for Israel in the Palestinian crisis. On the other hand, U.S. officials would be dismayed to learn that the Khobar blast was the work of Saudi Sunnis, since this would suggest a deeper opposition to the pro-American Saudi regime than had previously been thought." Although the Saudi government would like to have Al-Sayegh returned, don't look for any moves that might upset Iran until after the annual...