Word: blasting
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Evidence later obtained from underwater cameras shows that the blast tore open the entire double-hulled forward section of the 505-ft. vessel, an area the size of a school gymnasium. Seawater would have slammed into the torpedo and cruise-missile compartments, instantly killing the men on duty there. In the control room just aft of the shattered weapons compartments, Lyachin, the five staff officers and the dozen or so officers and petty officers manning the ship's controls would have had no time to react before the combined power of the blast and seawater tore through, destroying the gleaming...
...with a lot to celebrate. At the end of July, it closed the books on the biggest fund-raising month in its history--nearly $38 million in just 31 days. Cash is the Ecstasy of politics. On Tuesday afternoon, just a day after Colin Powell took the podium to blast "affirmative action for lobbyists," giddy Republican fund raisers met at the Westin Hotel to marvel at the cash flow as it gusted through the party ledgers. "This is unbelievable," one exulted. "We've never had a year like this...
North of Boise a few days ago, I drove through high mountain desert - bald, sere, dun country with the look of the Middle East about it. The sky glared nearly white, hazed but cloudless, and the air was a breath of blast furnace, the temperature at 104 F. Military trucks passed, carrying more firefighters north to the Burgdorf fire...
...stop shelter covered with stickers and black-marker slogans and posed angrily while their friend snapped a group photo. Another crowd, decked in all-black outfits and masks, sat on a high concrete wall, looking down into a streets that still smelled like aerosol spray paint, watching work crews blast graffiti off buses and buildings...
...Audio feed suddenly begins blaring at full blast while I'm doing a phone interview. Clumsily shut RealPlayer...