Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form, this year he has won the national indoor singles and doubles, the national intercollegiate singles and doubles, and his share of the Davis Cup matches against Mexico. At his worst, he has misbehaved badly enough to get a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, and blew his chances at Wimbledon in July by booting away an early match...
When Atheist Madalyn Murray, 43, blew into Stockton, Kans., there was no sign of the Welcome Wagon. Instead, she ran into smothering, if oblique, rejection as it became clear that there was nothing but trouble on her mind. The militant matron, whose suit against required school-prayer reading in Baltimore was upheld by the Supreme Court, had arrived to set up an atheist center. She also planned to enroll her son Garth, 8, in a nearby public school in order to sue for the removal of the Roman Catholic nuns who work there as teachers. The first night in town...
...from the Antarctic last week blew a chill and unexpected wind, clutching with its frosty fingers the hillsides and greening fields of coffee-rich Brazil. Brazil's coffeegrowers have learned to live with the danger of frost in June or July -it is now winter in the Southern Hemisphere-but the cold August wind caught them by surprise. Striking in the predawn light across the entire state of Parana (where most Brazilian coffee grows) and as far north as São Paulo, it wilted leaves and left September blossoms stillborn on the branch. Within hours, a lifeless swath...
...sound is musical Braille to Kirk. "The buzz of a doorbell is a note," he says; "the clunk of an ash tray on a table, that's percussion. I was riding in a taxi and the driver blew his horn. 'Man, you just made some music,' I told him." Whatever the taxi driver thought, Roland Kirk had found another lost chord...
...unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...