Word: blowingly
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...were held hostage, I would say that I was expendable. I say, blow up, shoot up, bomb and machine-gun the plane. This would kill the hijackers, the crew and the innocent hostages, but that is the only answer to terrorists' demands. Mary E. Isgrig Paris...
...certainly did little to assuage the chagrin, even anger, that the Republicans felt about the President's undercutting them on the Social Security freeze. New Mexico's Domenici, who was not invited to the Oak Tree reception even though he chairs the Senate Budget Committee, called it "a terrible blow." Said another Senate source: "It was the Oak Tree meeting where they sawed off the limb Pete Domenici was on." Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said the arrangement amounted to "surrendering to the deficit." Growled Iowa's Charles Grassley, one of 22 Republican Senators up for re-election next year...
...approached Decker, her childhood idol, to apologize, but the frustrated U.S. star dismissed her with a curt "Don't bother." For Budd, the waiflike wonder whose shoeless style and record-smashing times had drawn worldwide attention in the months before the Summer Games, the accident was a traumatic blow to an already turbulent career. She had come under fire for obtaining last-minute British citizenship in order to race in the Olympics and evade the antiapartheid ban on South African athletes. Now she seemed an overreaching child who damaged things, perhaps including herself. "My world was shattered," she said later...
That’s because of a rock-solid rotation, held down by juniors Jackie Adelfio (2.47 ERA) and Megan Ivey (2.54 ERA). Neither hurler is the type to blow hitters away, but both are smart and efficient and keep the opposition off-balance...
...have enough confidence in our team that even if someone’s missing, someone else can fill in,” Bergman said. “We have such depth in our program that it’s not as hard a blow...