Word: blasting
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Nearly four hours after the bomb blast, Neeraj Chawla still walks around with a large blotch of blood on his blue shirt. Chawla was one of the shop-owners in Paharganj-a congested zone of cheap backpacker hotels and clothing and fabric stores, just off New Delhi's main railway station. A bomb went off this evening in a busy intersection in Paharganj, killing at 16 people and injuring 60. (An explosion in the Sarojini district may have killed 39; another bomb went off in a bus in south Delhi; while police defused another in Chandi Chowk.) Chawla's handicrafts...
...feel an instant connection” with one punch: “And since Isis isn’t *necessarily* about all of us being best friends all the time...I would vote to have [name redacted] in because I bet she’s a blast to hang out with in the kind of settings we often find ourselves in as a club...
...Crimson’s 27-24 loss to Princeton Saturday was just one more indication that Harvard’s Ivy League dominance is a thing of last season.Clifton Dawson’s performance, however, was a refreshing blast from the past.The Tigers were able to contain the All-American junior tailback in the fourth quarter when it counted—keeping him from the endzone and the go-ahead score on fourth-and-two at the five-yard line—but not before Dawson racked up 203 yards and two touchdowns. The Payton Award candidate, who has been...
...mass and low gravity that prevents it from keeping hold of even a tenuously thin atmosphere. But oxygen needn?t exist only in gaseous form above the ground. It can also be entrained safely in certain kinds of rocks. Gather the rubble and either treat it with chemicals or blast it with heat, and you can free up unlimited quantities of oxygen both for breathing and for rocket fuel...
...colleague W.H. Auden, Isherwood was a 34-year-old talking point who had written three plays with Auden, journeyed to China and just completed the Goodbye to Berlin stories that would inspire the play I Am a Camera! and the musical Cabaret. He sailed to America trailing a blast of recriminations from his friends, who refused to believe he had discovered himself a pacifist just as his country was going to war. If we believe it, it's only because we're privy to his relentlessly honest self-interrogations throughout his massive Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 (HarperCollins...