Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might issue a challenge: "Don't you think everybody has a right to a little quiet in their own room? Can't you imagine circumstances in which you would demand just that?" You might appeal to roommate history: At the start of this semester we agreed not to blast the stereo after two in the morning--surely you've not forgotten already...
...Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything else, however strong. They both disliked vorticism, the remarkable English movement that combined elements of cubism, futurism and Dada and centered on the belligerent genius of Wyndham Lewis, painter, soldier, novelist, critic and editor of Blast. Bell in 1917 sneered at the "new spirit in the little backwater, called English vorticism, which already gives signs of being as insipid as any other puddle of provincialism," and thereafter the Bloomsberries rarely missed a chance to put Lewis down...
Sunrise was more than an hour off, and most of Managua was still asleep when the bombs exploded. "The earth moved," recalled Sergio Cano, a laborer. "We thought the gringos had started bombing." The blast in the Nicaraguan capital signaled neither an earthquake nor an armed invasion from the north but an unusually bold contra attack on an electrical tower. While residents slumbered in the dusty neighborhood of Domitila Lugo, rebels had scaled the high-voltage pylon and placed explosives on the metal crossbars. The explosion shattered windows and broke dishes in nearby homes, but no one was hurt. Indeed...
Reagan's questioners came into the East Room still buzzing about a sharp blast the day before from the usually mild-mannered Senator Simpson. He snarled that reporters shouting questions at Reagan during a picture-taking session were doing a "sadistic little disservice to your country" by badgering the President about Iranscam. "You'd like to stick it in his gazoo," Simpson charged...
...explosion like the one now brightening the Large Magellanic Cloud; the sun is thought to have only about a tenth of the mass necessary to become a Type II supernova and has no stellar companion to contribute the mass necessary to turn it into a Type I blast. But that will be of little comfort to whatever creatures exist on earth when the sun is in its death throes; the $ final solar convulsions, while feeble compared to those of a supernova, will wipe out all life on the planet...