Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time I took Expos, everyone knew the grading policy of the section leaders. Bomb the first paper and let the paupers work their way up to a respectable grade. This policy was meant to break down your bad habits and allow you gradually to rebuild your skills. Confidence was assumed to follow. If you did all the assignments--even it you still hadn't completed a sentence--you were almost guaranteed a B or better...
...convey the terror even an experienced spy feels when approaching isolated border crossings and potentially murderous guards. He can explain how to construct a remote-control detonator and how to gauge the damage of a terrorist blast by sight alone: "White smoke meant a very large explosion. A bomb that detonated so powerfully and quickly that it sucked the oxygen out of the air, leaving a white plume of smoke." The author also occasionally strains a little too hard to keep pulses racing. Hearts pound in chests "like a hammer against an anvil." Women have a habit of showing...
President Raul Alfonsin was determined to be convincing. "A time bomb," he declared, "is planted in the middle of Argentine society." In a 30-minute television address last week, Alfonsin resorted to such dire imagery to convey a sense of emergency and justify a drastic new austerity program. To cure the country's economic ills -- runaway inflation of more than 100% so far this year, a foreign-debt burden of $55 billion and a current budget deficit of $5.6 billion -- the President offered a radical prescription: wage-price freezes, tax increases for middle- and upper-income earners and a currency...
...refuel in midair, since the gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are skittish about letting them land on their territory for fear of Iranian reprisal. And because the Silkworms are truck-mounted and mobile, there is no guarantee that the U.S. jets would have anything to bomb once they got there...
...event had been shifted to a more secure room prior to the day of the speech and was shifted a second time a few minutes before the time scheduled, because of a bomb threat...