Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THERE IS SELDOM SOLACE IN THE DEATH OF CHILdren. Yet delicate sprouts of hope seem to have come from the tragic murders of Tim Parry, 12, and Johnathan Ball, 3, caught two weeks ago in a vicious Irish Republican Army terrorist bomb blast that tore through a British shopping mall. Susan McHugh, a Dublin mother of two, was so angered by the violence, which claimed six more lives last week, that she has started a new movement to search for peace in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of concerned people turned out for an organizing meeting last Wednesday. McHugh said the I.R.A...
...drifting, heads out on his Harley to visit his cousin Juliet in New Mexico. He doesn't know she has just sold her newborn daughter to a pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state cops, bumming joints from road people who have read too much Jack Kerouac. Some of this is fun, but adult readers will yell...
...TENSE DAYS, IT SEEMED AS IF THE "Black Friday" bombings that had rocked Bombay on March 12 and killed 317 would proliferate. A U.S. intelligence report warned that New Delhi could be the next target. Then, just after midnight last Wednesday, a blast shook the center of Calcutta. Two 100- year-old tenement buildings collapsed into rubble. This time 86 people died. And again, on Friday, an explosion at a Calcutta train station killed four. Police, however, discounted a link with Bombay's synchronized explosions of 13 high-tech bombs, saying the first Calcutta tragedy was caused by the accidental...
...hours after the World Trade Center bombing. Her proposal: How about a TV movie based on the heroic deeds performed by everyday folks caught in the disaster? On Saturday, one day after the explosion, she started meeting with people: two Brooklyn teachers whose kindergarten students were caught in the blast; a telephone repairman who set up a triage area for the injured; a mechanic who led six people to safety from the bowels of the towers. "They were on it real quick," says Fred Ferby, the mechanic. "She had everything together. She gave me something in my hand I could...
...while last year's team was fifth in the nation in batting average at .317 and beat opponents by an average score of 7.6 to 5.5, Harvard cannot go in to games this year expecting one man after another to blast a pitch out of Soldiers Field...