Word: blasting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bradshaw and Howie Long. Ronnie Lott was with us, the Hall of Famer from the San Francisco 49ers, and Jimmy Johnson, and Chris Collinsworth has been with us for four years, but the core three I guess would be Terry, Howie and myself. And it has been an absolute blast. I try to enjoy each outing with those guys because we are participating in something that is unique in television in that from the first day we went on the air on the “Fox NFL Sunday” football pregame show, we have been the number...
...Italian media have dubbed him the butcher of Genoa. Friedrich Engel, now a frail 93, is accused of ordering the execution of 59 Italian inmates from a Genoa prison in May 1944 in retaliation for a bomb blast at a cinema that killed five German marines. Engel, who was a member of the Nazis' élite Waffen SS security service, admits he took part in the executions. "Yes I was involved, but I don't feel entirely guilty," he told German television last year. "They were all partisans, terrorists who participated in earlier actions against Germans." Now Engel is being...
...pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, is using a depressingly familiar defense: he was just following orders direct from Adolf Hitler. Such claims have been used - almost always without success - by countless accused Nazis since the end of World War II. Engel claimed that after the cinema blast, an angry Hitler issued an order to "repay attacks resulting in death" by executing 10 people for every German who died. "For me to have resisted would have been impossible," he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. "Imagine, if you can, how you would have resisted the personal wishes...
Contrary to what you may assume, my fear has nothing to do with the recent terrorist attacks—in fact, I don’t really worry much about dying in a bomb blast at all. My insane brain prefers to question the mechanical integrity of the planes themselves. After my experience being on a plane that was swaying so much from side to side before landing that the pilot had to take off again to avoid a crash-landing, I began to doubt my innocent faith in air travel. Planes stopped seeming like marvelously secure and impressive human...
...third of the year—to begin the trouncing of the Crusaders. With the bases loaded, sophomore Louisa Canham came in as a pinch hitter. Canham took full advantage of her entrance into the game and ripped a line drive down the right field line. The blast cleared the bases to increase Harvard’s lead...