The death in 1986 of her sister, Felicite, with whom she shared her house, was a terrible blow, plunging her into depression.
— As a powerful winter storm moved up the East Coast to Maine and then out to sea on Sunday, residents across the Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard were bracing for winter's next blow: plunging temperatures and blustery winds right behind the storm that were expected to freeze solid everything in sight, creating dangerous travel conditions and potentially widespread power failures.
Plunging down into the subway via a steep escalator, we were blown away by the ballroom-like decor, with polished marble, palatial chandeliers and walls decorated with mosaic Socialist realism murals.
Plunging fast, I felt my eardrums pushing, then hurting, but no matter how hard I blew, I couldn't get them to pop.
Men steer their cattle by plunging along on the blown-up skins, apparently taking the task as something to which they were born.
These two factors mean plunging property prices have blown a huge hole in families' finances – and in economic growth, as the building frenzy came to an abrupt halt.
I am in the shower clinging for dear life when the bathroom fuse blows, immediately plunging the room into darkness.
Shares in the company were above 800 pence $16.299) in late December 2006, but they plunged to just blow 600 pence $$12.21) in January 2007 after the company warned in its last trading update that the market for sucralose wasnt as big as it thought, and that annual profit for the year to March 2007 would come in below expectations.
His office had been strangely decorated by Cathy, but not even the Expressionist landscapes on the walls and the blown-glass marlins plunging out of a crystal sea in the waiting room could diminish the cool, expensive efficiency of Dr. Pifer's domain.
It has yet to launch terrorist strikes outside Mindanao, but earlier this week it blew up power lines, plunging the entire island into darkness for several hours.
Last November Ukrainian activists blew up energy pipelines to Crimea, plunging homes into darkness.
