Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bang. That's it. But remember: Everybody sacrifice something valuable to the ECAC gods this weekend...
...Bang...
...angrily denounced his insensitivity--seems to have quietly disposed of a hot issue in the clammy bureaucracy of the College administration. Not only has he successfully pushed the definition he wanted, but he has done so with barely a murmur of resistance. The issue goes out not with a bang but a whimper...
RARELY HAS A CAMPAIGN SPEECH SET OFF SUCH A powerful detonation. Addressing a Socialist rally in Montlouis-sur-Loire in mid-February, ex-Prime Minister Michel Rocard called for a "political big bang" that would replace France's outmoded right-left political structures with a broad coalition of "progressive" forces, ranging from reform-minded communists and Socialists to ecologists, centrists and human-rights activists. Rocard was pronouncing the death of President Francois Mitterrand's scandal-tarnished Socialist Party, which faces almost sure defeat in this month's parliamentary elections, and laying the groundwork for his own 1995 presidential bid. Mitterrand...
Experts speculate that the bomb may have consisted of several hundred pounds of high explosives. The bomber may have known that because the device would be detonated in the reinforced enclosure of a garage, it would deliver more bang for the buck. An enclosed area can double the "shock wave" value of an explosion. "When you have a contained explosion, the blast doesn't vent," says Phil Hough, president of International Explosives Disposal (USA). "Effectively the building becomes part of the bomb." Says Phillips: "The garage was the perfect location because of both the damage to the upper floors ((with...