Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terrified Confession. But as it turned out last week, a more likely reason for the FBI's silence was that it had been handed a solution to the case by a kidnaper who panicked, turned himself in, and blew the whistle on his confederates. John Irwin, 42, an off-and-on house painter with a record ranging from assault to disorderly conduct in four states, was racing south from Los Angeles in a Chevrolet station wagon purchased with $1,000 of the ransom money. As he drove, his fears that capture was inevitable and flight was foolish mounted...
Against a spirited, but only adequate Brown club last Saturday Harvard blew a two goal lead in the final three minutes and didn't get a shot off in the overtime as the Bruins handed the Crimson Its second Ivy League loss in three years...
...helicopter work requires steady nerves. One armed Huey escorting a supply chopper at an outpost on the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon attacked a machine-gun nest that had opened fire. Just before one rocket was dropped, it was apparently struck by a sniper's bullet and blew up, shattering the plane's Plexiglas windows; the gunner and the crew chief suffered superficial but bloody face wounds. The dialogue over the intercom betrayed no panic: "Was a rocket blew up, wasn't it?" "It was somethin'." "You O.K., O'Shea?" "Roger." "Anybody else...
When the quintet took on powerful Northeastern two weeks ago, it looked as if things had returned to normal: Harvard amassed a 12-point lead and blew it in five minutes. But the team bounded back in the final three minutes of the game and upset the Huskies...
...last time Harvard's basketball team played Williams in 1961, the Crimson blew a 16 point lead and lost...