Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...necessary to use up the space, time and trees necessary to publish columns on an election whose outcome seems a foregone conclusion. No president has ever been leading by such a wide margin at such a late date and then gone on to lose. Unless space aliens blow up the White House and the President is somehow unable to shoot them down with his fighter jet (or an equivalent terrestrial event intercedes), Bill Clinton will be the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to be reelected for a second term...
...Rosens instead plan to blow away the field in part because Harold and his team of engineers have solved a set of daunting technological issues just in the past year. Harold is, after all, a rocket scientist. For instance, he has been able to create and sustain a relatively pure vacuum in which the flywheel spins, using such exotic devices as molecular drag pumps and molecular sieves. A better vacuum means less friction, thus better spin. He also has been able to suspend the rapidly spinning flywheel in its unstable environment by using sophisticated gimbals and magnetic bearings--something very...
Zamora brandished a barbell weight and smashed it with a sickening thud on the younger girl's head, according to police. To the horror of her attackers, Jones crawled out through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about...
Shortly after dawn the next day, police found Jones' body. She was wearing a gray T shirt emblazoned with REGION 1 CROSS COUNTRY REGIONALS 1995, commemorating the Lubbock track meet that ended in her fateful assignation with Graham. An autopsy revealed that either the crunching blow or the bullet could have killed...
Rivals hoped the episode would strike a blow to the resurgent William Morris Agency, because movie stars, notoriously insecure, don't like to think their agents would even consider changing vocations. Competitors mocked Rifkin for making himself vulnerable by acknowledging that he had been in talks with Sony without a deal in hand...