Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Worku says other alumni probably remember flooding the courtyard to form a skating rink during cold winters and "blow-out parties in the 10-man suite known across the Eastern seaboard...
...common the world over, so is the attempt of one politician to steal his rival's thunder. Yeltsin began his campaign by promising he would not "deviate from [his reforms] a single centimeter. A halt or any attempt to reverse them," he said ominously, "would deal a crushing blow to the country from which it might never recover." But the officials most closely associated with his reforms have been fired, and more than once Yeltsin has said he is still "for reforms, but not at any price; I am for correcting the course...
...warm and cold air masses sets up conditions that favor the growth of big thunderstorms. A tornado, however, requires something else as well: the presence of what meteorologists call wind shear. This occurs when winds in the so-called boundary layer--the part of the atmosphere closest to earth--blow more gently than winds at higher elevations. These two wind streams push on the layer of air that lies between them as though it were an invisible rolling pin. Then, as the warm updraft that powers a supercell shoots toward the stratosphere, it tilts the rolling pin so that...
...think of few more satisfying moments in my life than when I turned the key to blow up the silo," he said...
...holdouts, most notably Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, but he's up against no less a personage than Ted Williams, who says, "I would not be sentimental about moving into a new ball park." And you won't find any Fenway supporters on the current Red Sox, either. "Blow it up," slugger Mo Vaughn said one day last year. "Blow the damned place up." The Red Sox may as well put a THIS PROPERTY CONDEMNED sign on the Green Monster...