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Some streets are littered with snapped trees, clothes, chunks of insulation and blown-away Christmas decorations.

You maybe can see how these materials spoke rather loudly in luring in blown-away overnight guests.

After the family’s Paris apartment was bombed, in 1976—Marine woke up to a blown-away bedroom wall—they moved to a Second Empire mansion in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud, which an elderly industrialist had bequeathed to Jean-Marie.

It was only when the eight-year-old Marine woke up in her nightdress amids shards of glass and a blown-away bedroom wall after a bomb attack aimed at killing their father, that she realised her father’s political role and the extent of hatred towards him.

Bearers struggle to heft sumo wrestlers, a man chases his blown-away hat and female tavern owners literally pull potential customers toward their business.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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