Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rookie payload specialist in NASA's shuttle program, he'll spend the better part of the next nine months reacquainting himself with the punishing business of flying in space. He will practice lift-offs, run through landings, learn how to shimmy out of a shuttle threatening to blow up on its pad or bail out 10,000 ft. above the ocean--all at an age when most Americans have long since retired...
...council members at the nearly impossible to get face-value price of $275, way below the going street rate of $1,000 plus. Last week several members of Denver's ruling body did not seem unwilling to avail themselves of some bargain seats. But if the Broncs blow it, all bets...
...make it work, as I recall," he continues, "I had to blow on it really hard...
This was greeted with outrage in Austria and dismay in the U.S. Austrian Culture Minister Elizabeth Gehrer called Morgenthau's intervention a "heavy blow to the international exchange of art" that "shakes the foundations of trust." It seemed particularly insulting that Morgenthau's office had behaved as though the present Austrian government, whose conduct in the restitution of art stolen by Nazis after the Anschluss has been impeccable, would stoop to the sort of cover-up deployed by Swiss bankers over their stocks of stolen Jewish gold...
...investigators are holding a pile of other evidence. The flashlight, which doesn't belong to a cop, was sent to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation lab for testing. Police became interested in the light because its heavy rubber coating seems consistent with an instrument that could deliver a crushing blow yet not cause bleeding. It is among a handful of pieces of physical evidence that police feel could shed major light on the murder...