Word: blasting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first nine games. But the tough non-conference schedule seems to have prepared Harvard for the long Ivy road ahead. “The real reason we won is because everyone contributed,” McKinley said. “The Dartmouth tournament is always a blast, and although [the Dartmouth players] are rivals, we have great respect for them and feed off of their energy.” HARVARD 3, ST. FRANCIS 0 The Crimson controlled the third and final game against St. Francis (0-18), taking only 50 minutes to clinch the tournament title, dominating the Terriers...
...interest groups, high-powered unions and wealthy individuals plan to spend millions on television advertisements, direct mail and computer-generated phone calls over the coming weeks, almost all of them negative. These efforts will be supplemented by a lot of stuff that is even worse, like the faceless fax blast Cohen received...
...point plan for comprehensive national health-care reform and strongly endorsed me as the only candidate in this race who is standing up for working, middle-class families who need health care now." Also, always keep talking until the moderator is forced to stop you with a foghorn blast or by reaching for an elephant gun under the desk. Airtime is gold...
...swept across Iraq - often dozens or more a day: "The craziest thing about the suicide bombings were the heads - how the head of the bomber often remained intact after the explosion. It was the result of some weird law that only a physicist could explain: the force of the blast would detach the bomber's head and throw it up and away, too fast for the blast to destroy it. So there it would be, the head, sitting on a pile of bricks or underneath a telephone pole...
...heard a loud, loud bang," says Shah Hussain, 25, a waiter who had been serving guests their evening iftar meal to break the day's Ramadan fast in the Marquee Hall at the back of the hotel, where 14 people died. Within moments of the blast, the roof collapsed over the diners. "Everyone was crying and screaming, helplessly. Some of the guests were killed instantly," adds Hussain, whose white tunic uniform is stained with blood after helping carry the wounded out through the emergency exit and on to hospital. "Thank God that they were stopped at the gates," he continues...