Word: blasting
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...commanders turned to the successor to the jeep, the 20-year-old High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), as the humvee is officially known. With canvas doors and a skimpy skin of sheet metal, most humvees are designed to move small numbers of troops quickly. After a 1993 mine blast killed four U.S. soldiers in Somalia in their thin-skinned humvee, the Army began buying armored versions for deployment to hot spots like the Balkans. But neither the U.S. Army nor the Bush Administration fully embraced the vehicle until the Iraqi insurgency exploded. The Army originally thought it needed...
...humvees can't always stop a rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb or a 12-lb. mine buried in the road...
...worldwide fame and legions of young fans; along with teammates Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett. After playing a final game?a 5-0 win in California against Mexico?Hamm, whose 158 international goals set a record for both men's and women's soccer, said, "It's been a blast. We've done what we sought...
...allusions to Harvard are discreet, if not subtly addressed. Viewers will see a particularly raunchy campus magazine called “H-Blast,” lying around on a dorm table next to the famous college newspaper called “the Vermillion,” which keeps its writers hard at work each night. A certain elitist social club referred to appropriately by its members as “the Wasp” is mentioned in passing conversation between guests at a local dorm party...
...think Union’s always going to be the underdog,” Lehman said. I’ll bet if you ask nine out of 10 people coming into [the game tonight], they’ll say Harvard’s going to blast us. We have to earn that respect...