Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Wood earning All-America honors, Harvard steamrollered its first seven opponents by a composite score of 149-26. Only the Yale game stood between Wood and an eastern championship. Only Yale and Albie Booth. For the Cambridge flash the script was wrong. Harvard got only one scoring opportunity, blew it and then had to watch in anguish as Booth clicked on a late field goal to snap Wood's string...
...imperfections: a few (approximately 1,500 out of 20,500) seats with bad sight lines for hockey and track, water leaking from the ceiling, a nonfunctioning electric Scoreboard and clock. Even so, its problems were nothing compared with those at the new Philadelphia Spectrum, where the roof blew off, or the Inglewood Forum, which boasts southern California's most awesome traffic jam in its parking lot. By fight night, most of the Garden's problems had been solved: sight lines were being cleared, the Scoreboard clock was working-and boxing, at least, had a brilliant new showcase...
...offensive when six American Protestants with the Christian and Missionary Alliance were killed at a compound near Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, where the CMA ran a school and a leprosarium. According to survivors' accounts, the attack began before dawn when North Vietnamese sappers blew up a home in the center of the compound. The two occupants, Leon Griswold, 66, a retired insurance salesman from White Plains, N.Y., who had turned missionary, and his daughter Carolyn, 41, a youth worker, were fatally injured...
...Harvard fencers had one last chance to keep out of the Ivy cellar, but they blew it Saturday with a 17-10 loss at Yale...
Harvard beat Brown narrowly in January when the Bruins' top gunner, Billy Reynolds, blew a fast-break layup. Reynolds hurt Harvard from the outside that night, and he got offensive help underneath from 6-6 Steve Sigur...