Word: bomb
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...Traders used these anachronisms, put in when the Dow traded at one-fifth its current valuation, to figure out what to sell. The halt was spooky, flushing sellers from the woodwork when the market reopened. We must have lost 100 points in the time it takes for a bomb to drop from...
Last week, the offense struck for two long scoring plays, a 45-yard bomb and a 62-yard reverse by sophomore wide receiver Terence Patterson. This could be a sign that the effective Crimson running game is making defenses overcommit to the line of scrimmage...
Sophomore wide receiver Terence Patterson provided the big-play offense for Harvard, scoring three touchdowns, one on a 62-yard reverse and another on a 45-yard bomb. He ended up with 11 receptions for 121 yards which earned him Ivy League Player of the Week accolades...
After Giampaolo's first 21-yard field goal gave Harvard an 8-5 lead, Princeton scored the only touchdown of the game the next possession, a 65-yard bomb to junior wide receiver Ryan Crowley. The Tigers caught the Crimson blitzing, and Crowley beat sophomore Mike Madden for the score. The extra point made it 12-8, and that's when Harvard started making the big plays down the stretch which have been previously lacking...
Explosive attacks on the powers that be didn't start with the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. In December 1905, in Caldwell, Idaho, a sagebrush railroad town near Boise, a bomb attached to a garden gate killed the state's former Governor, Frank Steunenberg. Blame for the murder was quickly pinned on traveling "sheep dealer" Harry Orchard, who confessed to being a paid assassin for the Western Federation of Miners, one of the era's most powerful labor unions. The union's highest officials were indicted, and the young Clarence Darrow hired to defend them. The result was a kind...