Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violence in Punjab. That success was shared by the man who engineered Singh's election, India's Prime Minister Rao. Now, Rao's anti-terrorism accomplishment seems to have been blown apart also." Though no group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, Singh's election in 1992 was a blow to separatist Sikhs...
...forces overran the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica and left the West's Bosnia policy a shambles, Clinton summoned several top aides, including two senior advisers from the National Security Council, to the South Lawn. As they stood by in suits, Clinton, in color-coordinated golf togs, proceeded to "blow off steam on Bosnia," according to one participant, while he moved around the green with a bag of balls, a putter and a pair of wedges. "It's hard to justify our diplomacy when our diplomacy isn't showing much," he complained loudly. Within days, the White House announced...
...Killing cultural funding will leave future generations with an educational, aesthetic and spiritual deficit far greater than the financial one we currently face." LYDIA S. CLARY Bethesda, Maryland THANK GOD FOR ROBERT HUGHES. I have been waiting for an eternity for someone to blow out of the water the crackpot contradictions of Republican anticulturalists [COVER STORY, Aug. 7]. I wish more of us could slam with such verity and elegance. SYDNEY BARTON Chicago...
...lieu of swords, understand the fleeing armorer's specialty as ballistic missiles, warheads and lethal toxins. Whatever the reasons for it, the overland escape into Jordan by Lieut. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, his brother and their wives--both daughters of Saddam's--resounded as a signal blow to the Iraqi regime's inner fortifications...
...what passes for wit among some Republicans," said Phil Schiliro, an aide to Waxman, referring to the placement of his boss's picture under the ashtray. "That epitomizes their philosophy: 'Those Democrats didn't know anything, and if they're against smoking we'll be for it and blow smoke in their faces.' " Senator Frank Lautenberg, who once successfully pushed to ban smoking in all facilities that receive federal funds and that serve children, now has to make his way to his Capitol Hill office past small groups of Republican aides lighting up with impunity in the hallway...