Word: blasted
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...millions of other packages landing in homes and mailboxes across the country this holiday season -- and it sat on the kitchen table for about a day before Thomas Mosser got around to opening it. When he did, however, on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 10, it proved deadly: the blast nearly decapitated Mosser as he stood there in his bathrobe, and it carved a crater about two feet wide in the kitchen counter. It was only the most chilling sort of luck that no one else was injured -- Mosser's wife Susan and daughters Kim, 13, and Kelly, 15 months...
...years. Their ongoing investigation -- dubbed Unabom because the criminal's early targets were people at universities and airlines -- has drawn together a string of 15 incidents since 1978 that have killed one other person and injured 23. But while authorities can say with certainty that this latest blast bears some of the Unabomber's trademarks -- the return address on the package named a fictitious sender in Northern California, where the bomber is thought to reside, and the device, like earlier ones, was an intricately built pipe bomb inside a handmade wooden box -- they have not as yet determined what links...
While the council was having a blast...
Neither Russia nor the U.S. is so idiotic as to take any chance of reviving the cold war. In the midst of his blast during the CSCE meeting, Yeltsin took care to insist, "We are no longer enemies, but partners." But however one- sided his expression, there is a very real danger that what just a short time ago looked like a blossoming friendship will indeed degenerate into a mere cold peace...
Instead White House aides glimpsed an opportunity. Helms' blast -- the second reckless salvo from the archconservative Republican in four days -- offered Clinton a chance to point out how extremist Republicans can be. His public reaction was carefully studied: calling Helms' comments "unwise and inappropriate," the President suggested that Republicans might want to examine whether Helms was fit to serve as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "That's a decision for them to make," said Clinton...