Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never met him, never saw him. I tried to get tickets for a recent show in Fitchburg, but my fingers weren't fast enough. So when I heard Friday afternoon that Kurt Cobain had been found dead, a victim of a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head, I felt a sense of loss. I was a huge fan of Nirvana...
During the winter we also became acquainted with the idiosyncrasies of the building's heating system. People on the fourth floor shut their radiators completely off and were still sweltering--we were opening windows in January. Meanwhile, people on the first floor were chilled with their radiators on full-blast...
Think of them as a matched pair of undersea loudspeakers, one sunk off the coast of California near Big Sur, the other near the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A blast from one of these big woofers would be loud enough to be heard in the water for thousands of miles--and loud enough to damage or destroy the hearing of any animal that swam too close...
...final stanza, the Cantabrigians were rolling, and Martins put dual exclamation points on the win. First came a point-blank, Cannon blast of a slapshot, a power-play goal at :56 of the third which surprised even Martins...
...Paris, as well: the day after the blast, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and Defense Minister Francois Leotard were already calling for an / ultimatum, and Washington swiftly agreed. Transatlantic telephone conferences between Presidents Clinton and Francois Mitterrand helped iron out some minor differences. By the time NATO ministers met in Brussels Wednesday, there was a joint Franco-American proposal on the table, possibly the first in the 30-odd years since Charles de Gaulle began fulminating against "les Anglo-Saxons...