Unlike Sauerbrey, who came and left without making a sound, Solana used the occasion to drop a diplomatic bomb.

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In fact, so intense and immediate was the response from the Right that nobody seemed to notice that Senator Sessions chose to drop his Obamacare bomb a few hours before the GAO report was released to the public.

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While there is still debate about the issue, many historians believe the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan shortened the war and saved thousands of American lives that would have been lost in a land invasion of Japan.

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He did not drop the f-bomb.

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Maybe David Ortiz can drop an inspirational F-bomb on the Jumbotron.

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In a three-week period last month, an American marine battalion, tasked with taking control of Garmser, a Talibanised district of southern Helmand, called in one air strike, to drop a 500-pound bomb.

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