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• n  an entertainer who has a sensational effect
  she was a blonde bombshell
• n  a shocking surprise
  news of the attack came like a bombshell
• n  an explosive bomb or artillery shell

• The two forged a partnership in the early 50s, when De Laurentiis was producing films with his own bombshell wife, Silvana Mangano.
• Then, a few days later, Rifqa dropped a bombshell to an Orlando television station: she had run away, she claimed, because her family, angry about her conversion to Christianity .
• When somebody asked for his view on a Cabinet reshuffle planned by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, he dropped the bombshell: "I won't let Mori reshuffle the Cabinet.

• thunderbolt
• thunderclap

News & Articles

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• Espionage: The fight over Edward Snowden’s future intensifies
  The world knows that NSA leaker Edward Snowden is somewhere in Hong Kong – not in the luxury hotel where he was videotaped talking about his bombshell revelations regarding top secret National Security Agency surveillance programs gathering telephone and Internet metadata from millions of individuals, but “in a safe place,” the South China Morning Post reported Saturday.
  June 22, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
• Trial Testimony Bombshell: Michael Jackson Went 60 Days Without Really Sleeping
  Michael Jackson went two months without really sleeping – something no other human being has ever done, according to bombshell testimony at his wrongful death trial. While Dr. Conrad Murray … READ ON
  June 21, 2013 - RadarOnline.com
• Bernanke Bombshell? President Hints at Fed Chair’s Future
  Bernanke bombshell or not? President Obama is signaling that the Fed Chair will be leaving an empty seat when his term is over in January. How surprised are you? Vote below, and as always feel free to post something in … Continue reading ?
  June 18, 2013 - Hot Stock Minute via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• George Osborne in Times Online
  Labour's secret spending plans, which Gordon Brown never wanted to make public, appear to reveal an income tax bombshell,Osborne said. "Income tax receipts are set to rise by a third. Are they asking us to believe that this is only due to...
• Harriet Harman in Telegraph.co.uk
  To loud jeers from all sides of the House, she said: "During the election campaign, the Liberal Democrats attacked what they called the Tories' secret VAT bombshell. Little did we know that the Lib Dems had their own secret bombshell to drop on us -...