Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help. Officers struggled to rally those pinned down on the beach, but there were only four exits through the bluffs along the shore, and they were well covered by German guns. As a few Rangers managed to scale the heights, Navy ships steamed close along the shore to blast the German gun emplacements...
...also among the most puzzling. Two huge hoops -- each a few light-years in diameter -- and a brighter, smaller ring are surrounding the site of a supernova, an exploding star whose violent death was recorded by astronomers in 1987. For millenniums before the blast, Burrows and his colleagues believe, the terminally ill star had been gushing out great volumes of gas, which formed an hourglass-shape "bubble." (The bubble would ordinarily have been spherical, except that the gas around its equator was especially thick and slow-moving and thus stayed relatively close to the supernova.) Then, when the star blew...
...gravitate to the Warner Studio Stores. At a Warner outlet a few steps from the Disney emporium in Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping complex, the place is crawling with twentysomethings. At the back of the store, children can climb into Marvin's Rocket Ride and take a push-button blast through the solar system; but kids are scarce here: 85% of the customers are adults. Heather Bamberg, 24, forages until she finds a gift for her godchild: a cap with the Tasmanian Devil logo. More often, though, Bamberg shops for herself. "The themes here remind me of my childhood...
GOOD: Juwan Howard, bolting for the NBA before his senior season as a member first of Michigan's Fab Five, then Four, now Three...do I hear Two? One? Blast...
Freshman third baseman Katie Lee provided the rest of the Crimson's offense in the sixth. After junior outfielder Cheryl Sadow singled, Lee drove her in with Harvard's second blast of the game--a drive to left centerfield...