Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultures through their taste buds. After years of experimentation with burritos and Dos Equis beer, they are finally becoming a bit more sophisticated about Hispanic cuisine. The savory snacks of Spain known as tapas, the distinctive bite of cilantro (coriander) in a salad or seafood dish, and the fiery blast of salsa, Mexico's peppery condiment -- are now commonplace ingredients in the menus of non-Hispanic restaurants and, increasingly, in American home cooking...
...American embassy in Athens, was setting out for work in his bulletproof Ford Granada last week, the morning calm was shattered by an explosion. A bomb planted in a Toyota sedan parked near Nordeen's home had been detonated by remote control as he drove by. The blast hurled Nordeen's car across the street; the captain's decapitated body was found more than 100 ft. away in the yard of an abandoned house...
...owners said the probable cause of the conflagration was a gas leak, which a survivor said was "screaming like a banshee" seconds before the blast Wednesday night...
...Thomas, both of them limping. After 112 games, the bright-eyed star of the Detroit Pistons still had several working parts, but one ankle was overdue at the shop. Offensively anyway, he tottered admirably through the first half, when Detroit led by five points. But against a turned-up blast of James Worthy, the Pistons fell behind by 15 in the last quarter. They had to make their final run without Thomas, and nearly pulled it off. "At the end of the game," said the Lakers coach Pat Riley, "you were watching a great basketball team hold on. We were...
...customers, the magazine has become something of a minefield -- and a smelly minefield at that. More and more perfume manufacturers are relying on not just provocative texts and evocative images but a sample of the real thing. Turn the page, break open the "scent strip" and get a full blast of Giorgio of Beverly Hills; or Calvin Klein's Obsession; Fendi, the passion of Rome; or Faberge's McGregor. "The fragrance business is so highly competitive," says Melisande Congdon-Doyle, director of cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harper's Bazaar, "that the only way to get the scent before...