Word: blasting
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...silence, not because she had never beheld such a stereotype in the workplace but because no one had ever voiced it to her face. Her colleague explained he meant no harm. "He was trying to help me, and in his own way, he did," she says. "It was a blast of reality." James, now 48, answered in time--by rising to division president...
...second,” junior Audrey Ziomek said. “She hit a well-executed chip shot at about the goalie’s shoulder level, basically impossible to save.” But the lead would be short-lived. Columbia responded on a Kim Branich blast off a penalty corner, which Ashley McMasters then tipped and redirected past a defenseless Connolly at 24:46. Despite allowing the goal, however, the Crimson defended penalty corners very well as the Lions held a 5-4 advantage in the game. “An important part of defending a penalty corner...
...Spencer Associates: Coldwater Ridge Visitor Services Center Leave it to Americans to take a disaster that killed 57 people just 13 years ago and turn it into an official federal tourist trap. Fortunately, this center in the blast-zone heart of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument nicely avoids both government-issue banality and hokey log-cabin regionalism. Spencer Associates, based in Palo Alto, California, has created a spectacular glass-covered grand hall, from which one can gawk at acres of ash, lava beds, charred cedar stumps and, eight miles away, the still active volcano...
...half of the field, the Big Green was able to tie the game at one six minutes into the second half. On the play, Dartmouth reserve forward Craig Henderson took advantage of Harvard misplaying a ball on defense to tally the equalizer with a wide-open blast from 20 yards out that sailed into the corner of the net. Playing 10-on-11, the Crimson fought on defense for the rest of the half. In the 39th minute, captain and center back Will Craig rose to head a ball out of the box to end Dartmouth?...
...grim, brief history of modern terror, there was little special about last Saturday's serial bomb attacks in New Delhi that killed at least 55, save this: there may never have been softer targets. Police?who received a warning of the attacks 20 minutes before the initial blast?said the first bomb was driven by scooter or rickshaw into Paharganj, a run-down food-and-clothes bazaar containing a handful of backpacker hostels. The second was planted in the Sarojini Nagar market, a ramshackle collection of open-air stalls crammed with knock-off designer wear and cheap plastic knick-knacks...