Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty. If they got it Wednesday, the most important tear of the trial will have been shed by the defendant himself. As his mother spoke, the normally stony McVeigh was seen to wipe a tear from beneath his eye. Jannie Coverdale, who lost her two grandsons in the blast, said that the tear had changed things for her. "For over a year, I have looked for some sign of emotion and it came today," she told CNN afterwards. "At least now I know he's human...
...defense. Jones presented fewer witnesses than he might have called in a hit-and-run case, and even among that small number, there was one whose testimony went terribly awry. Daina Bradley said while she looked out the window of the Murrah building on the morning of the blast, she saw a Ryder truck pull up and a man resembling the notorious John Doe No. 2 get out and run away. This is what she had said repeatedly for two years. Suddenly, though, Bradley, who lost a leg in the explosion, sank her face in her hands and said...
...convenience store. Light bulb! Why not a movie based on the life of a convenience-store clerk? He wrote Clerks in a month and shot it at the store after hours, in black and white. (Cost: $27,575.) The movie won awards at Sundance and Cannes. "A totally welcome blast of stale air," raved a critic. "Grunge Godot." Smith was 24 and already anointed by Hollywood, but his next movie, the $6 million Mallrats, flopped. Now, at 26, he is back onscreen with the acclaimed Chasing Amy, a witty, trash-talking, politically incorrect comedy on the theme Boy Meets Lesbian...
...recognition of the fact that red-blooded spring breakers need a more stand-up form of entertainment, the U.S. military plans to start test-launching ballistic missiles from our fabled ecosystem. On your next vacation visit, you'll be able to watch 12-ton Hera rockets blast out of the wetlands and get shot down in a blaze of glory by Patriot-type missiles launched from Eglin Air Force Base, about 700 miles away. Our new slogan is "See the Lower Keys before they're debris...
...Judge Matsch has put lawyers for both sides under a gag order, Jones would not comment on the future of the case, but he is expected to appeal Monday's verdict. No matter what the sentence, the trial just concluded concerned only the 8 federal employees killed in the blast. Oklahoma state officials will now charge McVeigh with the deaths of the 160 others who died that day. Meanwhile, the federal case will continue in August, when opening arguments are expected to begin in the trial of Terry Nichols, the man the government says was McVeigh's co-conspirator...