Some trees were blown down and there was heavy rain, but no widespread damage.
In London a woman was knocked unconscious after a hoarding was blown down at West Hampstead railway station.
Was it really the Lord Protector's head that was rammed on a pike in Whitehall, to discourage regicides, only to be blown down in a gale and swiped by a soldier?
One is that he would rather unleash full-blown market panic than back down and lose face.
Item: In January the Boston Celtics basketball star Rajon Rondo went down with a blown knee, which ended his season.
"There are emotional and physical stresses associated with a disaster like this that go beyond the cost of the building blowing down and the home blown away and the family letters and pictures that will never be seen again, " he said.
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It would be better for regulators, in America and elsewhere, to knock down existing barriers to full-blown competition between trading places.
History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.
From the top looking down, we could see that the wind had blown all the snow off the face of the bowl, leaving it hard-packed, icy and very steep.
This devastation dates from 1974, when Mitsubishi shut down an 84-year-old coal mine on the wind-blown, storm-swept island of Hashima, 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of town.
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That doesn't count those who should probably cut down some, but whose alcohol use hasn't developed into a full-blown problem.
As water is taken down into the crust, salts are stripped from it, and eventually water is blown out again through the chimney stacks.
Either Tehran can decide to play the incident down and let the sailors go, or it could turn this into a full blown diplomatic crisis.
Rumour, myth and innuendo have it that Hitler was so impressed by both the view down the Arno and the collection of art that it was the only bridge not blown up by German troops as they retreated during World War II.
Even with greed, highly paid aggressive bankers, credit-default swaps, and those geeky quants, we would almost certainly have muddled through the fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble without a full-blown financial crisis had there not been millions of mortgages made to people with chequered credit and no down-payments.
And if there's anyone out there who still doesn't believe this constitutes a full-blown crisis, I suggest speaking to one of the millions of Americans whose lives have been turned upside down because they don't know where their next paycheck is coming from.
Time after time my mind has been blown by the ease in which Ponting gets off the mark with a perfectly executed straight or on-drive down the ground.
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