Word: blowing
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...their jobs gone. Losses were running as high as $3 billion just in South Carolina, where 70,000 people remained homeless and 224,000 were out of work. The state's top industry, tourism, may take years to recover. Timber, its third-ranking income source, took a $1 billion blow, as more than a third of South Carolina's forests fell to Hugo's winds. It may be 18 months before the 18,000 miles of blocked roads are cleared...
October has been the cruelest month.Co-Captains Hernandez and Carter have been let go.The final blow will drop tomorrow when Cashenfires Johnson. All Davey has done is win moregames than anyone else since he was hired. Herefused to kick dirt on umps, like Earl Weaver. Hedidn't abuse his pitchers, like Billy Martin. Henever tried to win games by himself, like WhiteyHerzog. He wasn't a celebrity, like Tommy Lasorda.He just let his players...
Injury Report: Restic's artificial surface fears came true against the Cadets as several Crimson players suffered injuries. The biggest blow had to be that to adjuster Bobby Frame, who hurt his ankle in the second quarter and had to sit out the rest of the game. Frame anchors, with cornerback Jim Smith, a Harvard pass defense which has recovered from a horrendous 1988 season to become one of the Ivy's stingiest. Frame is listed as questionable for Saturday's Lehigh game...
...pointed the gun at me and said 'give me your cash or I'll blow your brains out,'" Sinclair said. The gun was completely concealed beneath the man's jacket, she said. "It could have been his finger for all I know," she added...
Some mechanical problems are hard to spot in even the most thorough of inspections. Case in point: experts suspect that microscopic cracks on a 300- lb. revolving disk caused the tail engine on a United Airlines DC-10 to blow apart last July. The mishap crippled the jet's hydraulic steering system, killing 112 people when the plane crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. (McDonnell Douglas said last week that it would modify its DC-10s to ensure safe landings even if all hydraulic systems failed...