Word: utterly
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...utter disbelief, I could see smoke and flames devouring the top third of the north tower. The bitter smell of smoke burned in my nose...
...wasn?t just that he left us hanging that hardened the city against him. It wasn?t merely bruised pride. It was his utter lack of civility, his cursory attention to team dynamics, his outspoken disdain for Pittsburgh and its fans that turned me against him. He was cold and downright mean - a far cry from players like Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski, whose names still elicit a misty tear or two from die-hard Bucs fans...
...Israel prepares to bury 17 more people and hit back, the country's deeper anguish may reside in its utter inability, despite overwhelming military superiority, to put an end to the carnage...
...British and French commando units began training in Bosnia in mid-May. Following Robertson's visit, a pro-Serb-Montenegrin newspaper claimed that British commandos had been killed in a snatch attempt. NATO officials went through the roof. "Absolutely twisted," said a senior British officer, denying the report as utter fabrication. But when NATO promptly launched an apparently routine 1,200-man exercise in the part of eastern Bosnia where Karadzic and others are rumored to be hiding, speculation in local cafes about imminent arrests reached new levels...
...grandmother escorted her nine-year old grandson to the V.I.P. section. The child, wide-eyed with an Expos cap and baseball glove, looked bewildered as he was surrounded by six-foot tall Red Sox fans. The grandmother frowned every time they stood up to cheer and did not utter a word to them all evening. More poignantly, an aging Expos supporter became infuriated as a Red Sox fan built like a linebacker stood up in the bottom of the ninth, blocking his view. He tried to force him down by assaulting him with food wrappers, strategically equivalent to attacking...