Word: blew
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...behind the killing of 168 people in Oklahoma City last April, so far as it can be drawn from a federal grand jury indictment of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The indictment, issued last week, contains only a bare-bones description of how they allegedly built the bomb that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19; six of its 15 pages are devoted to naming the victims...
...such a seller's market that the sellers wouldn't sell, not just yet. Trading of 5 million shares in the long-awaited initial public offering of the upstart Netscape Communications Corp. was supposed to begin last Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., when the NASDAQ whistle blew. But here it was 90 minutes later, and the institutions and portfolio managers who had received huge blocks of shares still hadn't sold any of their stock. Investors were bidding up the price so fast that the ground floor had yet to be set. What the investment banks had valued...
...secret the Russians failed to learn was that America's atomic cupboard was virtually bare at war's end. While the Soviets were gearing up their first reactor, the U.S. was shutting its own reactors down. "Everyone dropped their tools and went home when the whistle blew," said a disgruntled General Curtis LeMay, who was soon to head the U.S. Strategic Air Command, the force responsible for delivering the nation's nuclear weapons...
...rival clans thrust together at gunpoint, the two halves of a Philadelphia courtroom audience watched each other warily last week, begrudging good behavior. Then a convict with cascading dreadlocks entered, and the people to the right of the aisle erupted. "Free Mumia!" they screamed. "Mumia, we love you!" Women blew kisses. Men punched the air with salutes. To the left of the aisle, the other half watched, silently enraged that the defendant might get another chance...
DIED. RABBI BARUCH KORFF, 81, who founded the quixotic National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency to root for Richard Nixon--a year before Watergate blew the Chief Executive from the White House; in Providence, Rhode Island...