Word: blasting
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...bash 15 times during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Only assassination can postpone the Oscars: Martin Luther King in 1968, the attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981. Otherwise, the show must go on, especially when it's usually the year's highest-rated entertainment program (though the 2002 blast was the lowest-rated in the Academy's 50-year TV history, and overnight stats suggest that last night's rating was even worse...
...your life depended on your sitting on a toilet-seat cover and keeping the awful thing inside from bursting out, would you get up to reach for a toothpick? The answer is yes if a) you're in a horror movie; b) it's time for the first big blast-o-gore; and (c) you are played by Jason Lee, whose attempts at acting constitute their own special horror...
Mazzoleni calls it a “hammer.” Tom Cavanagh thinks it’s closer to a “blast.” Others lean toward “cannon...
...would mistake these camps for three-star hotels. Nothing is easy here. Blinding, unseasonably fierce dust storms are turning the sky apocalyptic orange. The wind and sand blast the skin and destroy tents. Rain turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags, but socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot...
...Tudor, 56, of San Diego, joining the Late Bloomers Comedy Improv Troupe, which is geared to people over 55, started as an adventure but turned into something therapeutic. "When I retired last year, I wanted to keep busy," says the former corporate executive, "and improv sounded like a blast, even though I had no prior stage training." Tudor had recently suffered several bouts of serious illness and had lost a beloved 49-year-old brother-in-law to a heart attack. Doing improv not only became an exciting new hobby but also taught her to live emotionally in the present...