Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appears to be torn from the very pages of the manifesto. "It's too bad that Ted Kaczynski, assuming he's the One, was not into the Net," laments one alt.fan. "He could have spent many hours flaming away at Netheads and other techies rather than trying to blow them...
...first inning was very important--it's always easier to play when you're ahead," said junior Melissa Kreuder, who delivered the first big blow with a bases-loaded double...
...agents imagined a smart, twisted man, carving and fiddling into the night. To kill three strangers and injure 22 others, he had to be powerfully angry. Yet he must have enormous patience to experiment with explosives and triggers and not blow his fingers off. "When you see this stuff, some of these components bear markings of having been put together and taken apart repeatedly," said Chris Ronay, the FBI's top bomb expert in the 1980s. "It's not just that he's creating something carefully. He's played with it for a while. He marks things with numbers...
...there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world, and you wouldn't have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source." Soon he was writing to the San Francisco Chronicle, threatening to blow up an airplane out of Los Angeles, which caused security to be tightened for several days. He promised to stop if the Times and the Washington Post would publish his magnum opus, a 35,000-word screed against industrial society and modern civilization. He said he was growing tired...
...answer, Jones thinks, is a white supremacist named Richard Wayne Snell. On the evening of the Oklahoma bombing, Snell was executed in Arkansas for the 1983 killing of a pawnbroker he mistakenly believed to be Jewish. In the early 1980s Snell and some associates conspired to blow up the Murrah building. His last words before his death were, "Look over your shoulder; justice is coming." Aha! says Jones. "Why would Snell think that unless he knew? One hypothesis is that a group of people decided to give the old man a going-away gift. Just blow up the building that...