Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third year I've done this, and we always have a blast...You've got great people, great food, great entertainment," said Brendan C. MacDonald, a Cambridge resident and volunteer coordinator...
...blast was over in a nanosecond, causing no more visible effects than the momentary frothing and churning of the turquoise waters around Mururoa atoll. But the political aftershocks from France's decision to test a small nuclear device in the South Pacific last Tuesday continued to reverberate around the world long after the waves had calmed...
...South Pacific, the controversy took on the trappings of a naval battle as the militant environmental organization Greenpeace and a 25-boat "peace flotilla" approached the Mururoa test site. Four days before the blast, after Greenpeace penetrated a 12-mile security zone, black-suited French navy commandos boarded and commandeered the two lead vessels, signaling Paris' determination to go ahead with the tests--despite the inevitable global backlash...
There are also some specialty players. Junior Daphne Clark can blast corner shots all day, and sophomores Sally Romano and Eileen Horwath paired up as the starting left and right backs in 1994. This year, Romano may move to center back to make room for freshman Tara La Sovage...
Earthquakes may get more press, but hurricanes can be far more destructive. "They are," Gray says, "the biggest natural threat facing the U.S." Nobody can predict whether a given storm will blast through a city or dissipate harmlessly at sea. But it doesn't take an atmospheric scientist to realize that the more storms there are, the greater the danger of disaster...