Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quakers continued to stall, but Sedlacek broke it up by fouling Penn's Joe Andrews. In a one-and-one situation the second-string center blew the shot, Harvard grabbed the rebound, and it appeared that the second miracle within 24 hours was about to transpire...
...have any idea of how to get the ball through Yale's defensive net. Kaminsky scored 21 points in the first half and Yale led all the way. Late in the period however, the Crimson whittled the Bulldogs' lead to 28-27, but then Merle McClung and Barry Williams blew easy shots and the Blue spurted ahead 38 to 31 at intermission...
With 9:06 to play the score was 54-50, but in the next eight minutes Harvard scored a total of seven points and Yale blew the game wide open, then went into an aggravating stall which eroded Harvard's effective zone...
...moral code expressed in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, otherwise known as Fanny Hill, the celebrated 18th century pornographic novel now freely available in the U.S. One of the principals "considered pleasure, of one sort or another, as the universal port of destination, and every wind that blew thither a good one, provided it blew nobody any harm...
...small chance became thundering reality in Texas City in 1947, when two shiploads of ammonium nitrate fertilizer blew up in the harbor, setting off fires and further explosions that killed 512 people, wounded more than 3,500. The dreary legal aftermath of that holocaust is recalled in a new study of Government liability by Columbia University's Legislative Drafting Research Fund, which points out that Texas City victims waited nine years for their first penny of Government compensation. After the Supreme Court ruled they could not collect under the Tort Claims Act, a special act of Congress allowed them...