Word: blasting
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...briefly counterpointed by a cute hearts-and-flowers, silent-movie piano flourish, as if sentiment not sex were the theme of the story - he's lying with his right hand, telling the truth with his left. A last "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!", a final four-note blast, and it's over...
UKRAINE Mine Blast Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma promised to close all unsafe coal mines following an explosion that killed 20 miners?the third major mining accident in the country in recent weeks. The blast occurred 1,076 m below ground at the Zasyadko mine in the eastern Donetsk region when about 700 miners were in the pit. Ukraine's aging mines are among the world's most dangerous...
...kill Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in April. The two accused, Mohammed Imran and Mohammed Hanif, confessed they parked a pickup truck loaded with explosives along Musharraf's motorcade route through Karachi. The remote-control detonator failed. Eight weeks later the same explosive-rigged vehicle was used in the blast at the U.S. consulate...
...sumptuous lodging, nowhere has managed the mix better than Thailand. In the 1970s it was Pattaya. The 1980s: Phuket. Resorts by the score are already pining to supplant Ko Samui, favored destination of the '90s. Yet the victor may not be another idyllic Ko Samui wannabe, but a genuine blast from the past...
...Jaish-e-Muhammad, which possibly have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, want Musharraf's whole Yankee-loving crowd eliminated. Such radical groups have already registered their displeasure by setting off bombs to kill foreigners in the commercial capital of Karachi--11 French engineers died in a blast in May--and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl. A verdict for his accused killers is expected to be announced this week. A bigger score would be Musharraf. The general, who has been known to carry a gun, shrugs off the danger. Says his wife Sehba, who wed Musharraf four years...