Word: blowingly
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...soon as the missiles started flying, at 1:06 a.m. Thursday, Baghdad time, so did the questions and recriminations. The bombing was a particularly cruel blow to Annan, who had brokered deal after deal to ward off military action. "This is a sad day for me personally," he said. "What has happened cannot be reversed." In an address to the nation, Clinton claimed he had to strike while the Butler report was hot and because "to initiate military action during Ramadan [coming up over the weekend] would be profoundly offensive to the Muslim world." But even within the American military...
Still, no one expected the stunning blow that came in the statement by Senate majority leader Trent Lott not long before the first airbursts were seen over Baghdad: "I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time. Both the timing and the policy are subject to question." This was a break with tradition. Even when Ronald Reagan's 1983 invasion of Grenada just two days after the terrorist bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut led to more attacks at home on U.S. policy in Lebanon, a skeptical Democratic leadership refrained from attacking the President's motives...
...Roth IRA--much talked about but mind-bogglingly underused. Put simply: you have just two more conversion weeks till Christmas. Don't blow it. Mutual-fund companies estimate that only 5% of people eligible to convert their old IRA to the Roth version have done so. There may be a crush of late activity, and paperwork received the last week of December may not get processed before the year-end deadline...
Since the preseason, Harvard has been dealt one blow after another, be it illness, injury or the dreaded Rhodes Scholarship...
...seems the most hairsplitting of technicalities. In Moses: A Life, Kirsch writes, "Against the blow of a wooden staff upon a dry rock, a lifetime of struggle, hardship and faithful service counted for nothing." Some analysts think biblical editors expunged Moses' real sin, whatever it was. Others say his only sin is failure, his inability to ennoble the slave generation. Not so fast, argues Friedman: Moses has been edging toward usurping God's prerogatives for some time, "and now he steps over the line. He changes a miracle. Nobody had ever done that before...