Word: blew
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...should also recognize the limitations that this existence imposes. Maybe then we will complain a little less and cease wallowing in the odd culture of disquiet that we have created. In 1969, the year after the Tet Offensive, the Beatles sang "Here Comes the Sun." In 1993, Kurt Cobain blew off his head with a shotgun. We really must grow...
...very risky version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus blew across the Loeb Mainstage last weekend, featuring eerie music, shocking slideshows, vinyl costumes, and a set that looked like a construction site. Fortunately, more than enough talent and Shakespearean savvy were poured into this post-modern production to make all the creative risks...
Tied with Columbia, Ivy League pre-season favorite Dartmouth (5-0, 2-0) blew out Yale, 40-6, in Hanover...
...that reason, I was appalled to read in Mark Thompson's story "The Gulf War Poisons Seep Out" that U.S. Army Engineers "blew up" nerve-gas-weapons depots in Iraq in 1991. Who made the decision to risk blowing up the chemical and biological ammunition in situ? Was the risk factor properly appraised, not only with regard to allied troops temporarily present in the vicinity of the destruction site but also with regard to the Iraqi civilian population? If "blowing up" is a correct description of what happened, and if even minute quantities of nerve gas can be a severe...
...alive again, and eager to see Grrrl die. She has been abusing you for a while now; last time she blew you away with a fusillade from her nail gun. And as you glide along the blue gray corridors of this ghostly computer-generated world, finger itchy at the trigger, it's Grrrl you're after. The fact that in real life Grrrl is a pretty twentysomething who rudely shooed you out of her office just before the game started has nothing to do with it, you tell yourself. This is war--or its virtual equivalent...