Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Opportunity Society--he and Bob Walker and Connie Mack and then Congressman Trent Lott, and they didn't have a dollar and didn't know nobody and acted like a bunch of kids in a clubhouse with a small book of matches that they were going to light and blow up the world...
Later that week, a member of Hamas, the largest Palestinian Islamic group, nearly blew up a bus filled with the school-bound children of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. (An Israeli army jeep escorting the children cut him off, absorbing the blow of his 170-lb. car bomb. The bomber and one soldier died.) "[Arafat] was really panicking about it," said an official who saw him afterward. "Had it been the 40 schoolchildren, it would have been the end of the peace process as we know it." A Hamas splinter group, Islamic Jihad, made another go at that goal...
...seriously." Another security chief says he does not think Hamas will target Arafat, but he does expect assassinations of lesser officials. Says a P.A. Cabinet member: "If you want to get rid of Arafat or any other P.A. official, all you need is a crazy guy like those who blow themselves up in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and unfortunately there are a lot of them around...
...doubt this new, arty Vegas will attract the likes of the Astors and Rockefellers, and Joe Blow from Omaha may be a little intimidated. Steve Wynn and the other corporate boys are going to need some of the luck that everybody wishes for when they go to Las Vegas. They may have created a no-man's-land. SUZANNE W. MCCARTHY Winston-Salem...
Nintendo is aiming to strike a blow at archrival Sony with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The puzzle-solving adventure game is the first to take full advantage of the superior graphics engine in Nintendo's 64-bit machine--an edge Sony's PlayStation countered with a wider selection of titles. Zelda, the fifth in a wildly popular series that left off in 1992, is expected to sell 2.5 million copies in its first six weeks...