Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amex Life Assurance Co. decided to award the money despite the Navy's conclusion that Hartwig may have engineered the blast to commit suicide. But the company disputes the claim by Truitt's lawyer that the payoff disproves the Navy's findings. Said a spokesman: "Amex is not saying that ((Hartwig)) did or did not commit suicide. What Amex is saying is that there is not enough evidence to deny a claim based on suicide...
...officials denounced the supposed intercepts as fakes, and peacekeepers in Namibia reported that the country was "exceptionally calm." South Africa's actions appeared to be a last pre-election blast against SWAPO, which is favored to win and install a leftist government on South Africa's border. Pretoria retreated by week's end, saying it might have fallen for a hoax...
...plaster, scattering bric-a-brac, breaking dishes, shifting furniture, toppling walls and collapsing roofs. Waterfront houses lurched and fell apart, hotels hopped off their foundations. In the working-class district south of Market Street, tenements turned into tangled splinters, and four hotels capsized and collapsed, trapping scores. An added blast rattled the area, as the city gas plant blew up. Thousands of chimneys plunged through roofs. Many residents drowned, trapped, in deluges from ruptured water mains. An elaborate new city hall disintegrated. When the Richter scale was devised later, experts rated the quake at a tremendously potent...
Last Friday, with Matias healthy, Harvard took its frustrations out on the Green. Matias, customarily a defensive specialist, came out on the attack early. Her low blast from outside the penalty area, barely handled by Dartmouth goalkeeper Debbie Tripaldi, was the Crimson's best scoring threat of the first half...
...righteously battled Dr. Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and taught her sweet niece how to dance in Desert Bloom. Just now she is bookending her role in Sea with a turn as the triple-crossing ultrabitch in Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome. Tough? This babe can blast a robbery victim without blinking. And when her muscular creep crony pulls a gun on her, she stares back utterly unimpressed, as if to say, "Go on and shoot. My hide's so hard, the bullets'll bounce...