Word: blasting
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...follow-through from Andrew Lederman’s power-play blast turned the forward towards the stands of the Bright Hockey Center, where all he could see was the blur of hats and jackets and faces of fans packed into the red bleachers. He didn’t see his puck sail past Yale goaltender Josh Gartner, nor did he see it buried in the left side of the net. All he saw was the sudden movement of hordes of fans jumping to their feet, and all he heard was the roar of their shouts...
...Lebanon's sectarian divides-his grave in downtown Beirut has become the city's most popular tourist attraction-the circumstances surrounding his assassination are still cloaked in mystery. The bombing site remains cordoned off by police tape, the street littered with the gnarled remains of cars burned by the blast. A U.N. fact-finding mission concluded in March that the Syrian regime bore "primary responsibility" for the political circumstances leading up to Hariri's assassination, though Damascus has denied any involvement. A U.N. team arrived in Lebanon at the end of May to begin a formal investigation...
...attackers hoped to silence the anti-Syrian front that Hariri had built, they were disappointed just seven days later, when 150,000 people descended on Martyrs' Square in Beirut to mourn Hariri, wave Lebanese flags and demand Syria's withdrawal. The blast did, however, have a chilling effect on one group close to Hariri: his family. Days after their father's funeral, Hariri's four sons fled the country following a warning that they might be next. But as the Syrians began pulling out their troops, paving the way for elections, the Hariri clan grew concerned that without its leadership...
...station, where she works as a cleaner, to find her co-workers slack-jawed with incredulity. They were staring at a fresh crop of campaign posters plastered on the station's walls. They portrayed her husband, Wolfgang, a steelworker and union shop steward at ThyssenKrupp Stahl, in his silver blast-furnace smock and hard hat. The real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (cdu). "Did you see the poster? How can anyone...
...shoot the golden crown off a wooden bird. In the not-too-distant past, Mahlberg might reasonably have expected to come under fire himself in such an spd heartland. Instead, the reception is warm. The outgoing king of marksmen, Detlev Wilms, 57, who works in the blast furnace at Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, explains that he's a union man and for years voted spd. But, he says, the quality of life in his community has deteriorated. "The spd isn't socially responsible anymore," he gripes. "They're not looking after the needs of the common worker." The Christian...