Word: powdering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...substantial aid cuts, from $76 million in 1985 to $11 million this year. But Doe seemed indifferent to his country's growing bankruptcy. U.S. officials still urged reform, but Doe, who often consults a shaman, responded to one overture from CIA director William Webster by offering him a magic powder...
...soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot . . . And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the people of Israel drink...
...Robin Burns is the new head of Estee Lauder. She hates hierarchies, loves risks and schussing through a negotiation as if it were powder on a slope in her native Colorado...
...Bishop H.H. Brookins, a powerful leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; even at Barry's home, where the mayor cooked up a batch of crack cocaine in the kitchen. On the first such occasion, Moore said, the couple visited an apartment where Barry pulled a stash of powder cocaine from under the corner of a rug. Once, Moore said, after she and Barry got high in her mother's basement, the mayor went upstairs and gave advice to Moore's mother on how to help her son with his drug addiction...
...tests conducted at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, the GAO discovered that the 94-lb. powder bags used in the Iowa's 16-in. guns could ignite if rammed into the breech at high speed. More significantly, traces of calcium and chlorine found in the cannon did not prove that the blast had been set off by a saboteur's detonator; similar residues were detected in the gun turrets on two other battleships. After confirming the GAO tests, the Navy suspended live cannon fire on all four of its battleships and reopened its investigation of the Iowa tragedy. Physical evidence...