Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explosion sent one fraternity member to the hospital, and slightly injured two other students. The explosion brought bomb squads from Cambridge and Boston, and closed parts of the MIT campus for hours...
...Puerto Ricans have long objected to the Navy's practice of bombing on Vieques, but the controversy boiled over after a civilian security guard was killed by an errant bomb in April...
...cultural event, the turn of the millennium is starting to look pretty anticlimactic. NBC's much-hyped "Y2K: The Movie" was a bomb. According to the Los Angeles Times last week, sales for millennium shows and galas have been "tepid." The paper reports that "many worry that what was initially looked at as a historic payday may end up as a bad investment covered in confetti." Celebration 2000, a lavish event to be held at the Javits Center in New York, was cancelled after no one bought tickets. Even singer/songwriter/poet Jewel canceled her hometown New Year's Eve concert...
...novelist named Maurice Bendrix (a fiercely glowering Ralph Fiennes). Set in wartime London and the grayish postwar years, it is, to borrow Greene's favorite word, a routinely "seedy" coupling. Until the afternoon when, taking a break from their lovemaking, Maurice steps out of the room and a buzz bomb strikes. She thinks he's dead, drops to her knees and prays: if God will spare him, she will give him up. Whereupon Maurice returns to the bedroom, stunned but intact...
Indeed, this is not the first nor will it be the last error of its kind. Immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing, many officials and journalists were quick to announce that the most likely culprits were the local Arab and Muslim communities, and the FBI put out two sketches of "Middle Eastern looking" individuals who were suspected of planting the bomb. In fact, one "expert," Steven Emerson, who recently visited Harvard and gave a talk about the dangers of Islam in America, was quoted as saying, "This was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible. That...