Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the gilded rooftop of Lhasa's Potala Palace, heralds blew 14-foot-long copper trumpets. Below, in the building's ornate Assembly Hall, a bright-eyed, 16-year-old boy sat on a high throne, about which clustered Tibet's most powerful lamas, abbots and monks. They had come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted...
...Years at Yale" blew up a storm in 1914. An article in the New York Evening Mail of May 19 read, "President Hadley of Yale today declared the University would not take official notice of the new book "Ten Years at Yale' written by G. F. Gundelfinger, Class of 1906, in which Dr. Hadley is criticized for "trying to make the public believe that drunkenness is frowned on at Yale...
Dudley ran away with the House touch football championship yesterday by beating Leverett, 42 to 12. Gale-like winds on Soldiers Field blew five Bunny passes into enemy hands for touchdowns...
Otherwise little happened. Navaro blew its best chance to score because the right forward was so busy exhorting his teammates to acts of valor that he failed to notice he had the ball and a clear shot at the goal. Rome lost a scoring shot when a one-man rush ended with the forward tripping over the ball and falling down. All other rushes ended in a sudden confusion that all players seemed to feel as soon as they entered the enemy's zone...
...referee, thinking the ball had been downed, blew his whistle and ruled as incomplete pass. Upon conferring with the other officials, he then awarded the ball to Harvard, but refused to allow the touchdown, claiming that the play had stopped before Culver could score...