Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet subversion, real and imagined, at home; the threat of nuclear holocaust ominous enough to send schoolchildren diving under their desks at a teacher's practice command. (I remember studying an aerial photo of New York City, on which concentric circles described the effects of an H-bomb blast over the Empire State Building, and feeling a sense of doom that I lived four blocks inside the zone of vaporization...
...electrical fire is suspected to have, triggered the blast, which occurred around 5 p.m. yesterday, according to Harvard Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley...
This time there was no long blast over the fence, but shortstop David Giglio did rip a single into left field to drive home the 11th UMass...
OKLAHOMA CITY: The chain link fence around the grassy field where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood is a monument to suffering great and small. Hundreds gathered here Friday for a memorial service one year to the day after the devastating blast killed 168 people in and around the building. Families wiped away tears, some smiling shyly at each other, as they observed 168 seconds of silence, a second for each of the 168 victims. Rescuers from around the nation, who came to help Oklahomans in the aftermath of the blast, joined the mourners today in an expression...
Other victims have found it difficult to accept help. Cecil Elliott, who worked at a camera shop two blocks from the Murrah building, lost his best friend, his job, some of his hearing and his peace of mind in the blast. For months afterward, plagued by a constant ringing in one ear, he tormented himself over his first reaction to the explosion that threw him 15 feet onto his back. "I knew my friend was in the building,'' he says, choking up. "Your heart is saying, 'Get him out. He wouldn't leave you.' But your mind is saying...