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  • Good time to be away, after to avoid the after effects of the Edwards marital bomb-shell.

    Obama’s Hawaiian Homecoming - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • He sat down beside me, well pleased with what he supposed was his bomb-shell.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • I wonder what this weeks bomb-shell is going to be?

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 28, 2006 2006

  • With no bomb-shell of an October surprise namely a tape coming from Osama bin Laden as was done in the 2004 presidential campaign; a self-inflicted November surprise came about today when Sarah Palin took an active part in a prank phone call unbeknownst to her.

    Sarah Palin and the prank call: The GOP's self-inflicted November surprise 2008

  • After the publication of the bomb-shell meta-analysis in the NEJM we witnessed a battle of words,data manipulation or analysis-depending on how you look at it-to determine who would control the narrative.

    The Avandia scrum and the art of war and narrative control james gaulte 2007

  • After the publication of the bomb-shell meta-analysis in the NEJM we witnessed a battle of words,data manipulation or analysis-depending on how you look at it-to determine who would control the narrative.

    Archive 2007-12-01 james gaulte 2007

  • And I thought this was going to be a bomb-shell and an intense cross-examination ...

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2005 2005

  • JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": Well, Nancy, we have learned at "Celebrity Justice" more about this bomb-shell witness for the prosecution.

    CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2005 2005

  • Those from Antibes are about the size of an ordinary bomb-shell: but the Sardinian and Jamaica watermelons are four times as large.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Then, the train rattled among the house-tops, and among the ragged sides of houses torn down to make way for it, and over the swarming streets, and under the fruitful earth, until it shot across the river: bursting over the quiet surface like a bomb-shell, and gone again as if it had exploded in the rush of smoke and steam and glare.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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