Word: blowingly
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...version that transcends even Jones' rapturous solo. Steal Away and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot are played with a kind of hushed delicacy, much as written, although Haden says there were "a couple of times we looked at each other and said, 'Forgive us, Lord, for that flatted 13th.'" They blow away all the encrusted sanctimony from We Shall Overcome, rediscovering the splendor of its pride, and find a perfect ecumenical grace in Danny Boy. "Initially I was a little apprehensive about the format," Jones admits. "We were unsure as to how people would accept spirituals played in the same context...
...victims were associated with universities or airlines, whence his name. Last week's first missive was an unsigned typewritten letter that arrived at the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. Its contents were terse, unambiguous and bloodcurdling. "WARNING: the terrorist group F.C., called Unabomber by the FBI, is planning to blow up an airliner out of Los Angeles International Airport sometime during the next six days." To establish his credentials, the letter's author cited the first two numbers -- 55 -- of a nine-digit code Unabomber had earlier given to editors of the New York Times so that they would know...
...lobbyist for California's timber industry, had been triggered by the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. "We strongly deplore the kind of indiscriminate slaughter that occurred in the Oklahoma City event," read Unabomber's letter to the Times-blithely sidestepping the fact that last week's threat to blow up a passenger plane is perhaps the ultimate indiscrimination...
...travel and mail deliveries throughout California were disrupted when the nation's most notorious and elusive mail bomber, known as the Unabomber, threatened in a letter he sent the San Francisco Chronicle to blow up an unspecified airliner at Los Angeles International Airport. Officials maintained tight airline and postal security despite a second letter from the Unabomber to the New York Times boasting that the threat was a hoax -- in his words, "one last prank." In yet a third communication at week's end, the bomber said he would desist from further killing attempts if the Times or Washington Post...
...name of the children and their parents that lawmakers are racing to fight cyberporn. The first blow was struck by Senators Exon and Coats, who earlier this year introduced revisions to an existing law called the Communications Decency Act. The idea was to extend regulations written to govern the dial-a-porn industry into the computer networks. The bill proposed to outlaw obscene material and impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years on anyone who knowingly makes "indecent" material available to children under...