Word: powdering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fiery death throes of the Arizona. "A huge column of dark red smoke rose to 1,000 ft., and a stiff shock wave rocked the plane," he recalled years later, when he had become a Presbyterian missionary. "It was a hateful, mean-looking red flame, the kind that powder produces, and I knew at once that a big magazine had exploded. Terrible indeed...
...newly-instituted ban on beer kegs at Princeton University has sparked a powder keg of student reaction...
...john had "I Love You" scrawled in the toilet bowl with a substance not of this world. Maybe I should also get Lit and Arts C credit for trying to clean that bathroom. I can only hope that non-ordered choice does not ruin the character of Adams House powder rooms...
...good news is that California police are seizing huge amounts of cocaine. The bad news is that they don't know what to do with the stuff since a state agency declared the white powder "toxic waste." None of the incinerators that police use are equipped with the filters and scrubbers required for disposing of such substances...
...Balkan rivalries unnerves many in Europe, but Yugoslavia's turmoil today is important -- and dangerous -- mostly to its own people and its nearest neighbors. When reports of fighting in Slovenia reached Washington, Secretary of State James Baker fell back on some of the old terminology. "It is truly a powder-keg situation," he said. Actually, while bloodshed in Yugoslavia is tragic and unnecessary, this time it does not threaten to ignite a world...