Word: blew
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...varsity fencing team needed but one victory out of six final matches to beat Cornell Saturday, but blew all six in losing to the Big Red by a 14 to 13 score...
...Satellite. The storm blew up over a U.S. State Department press release bluntly chiding Canada for its failure to equip its jet interceptors and antiaircraft missiles with nuclear warheads, and openly disagreeing with public statements made by Diefenbaker on U.S.-Canada defense plans and negotiations. Drafted "on a lower level," and handled in a manner that Britain's Manchester Guardian called "a foolish piece of hamfistedness." the release was approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and issued after only a 30-minute advance notice to the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Furious at both the content and style...
Harvard probably played its worst game of the season when it bowed to the Lions a month ago. Sinking a pathetic 17 of 62 field goal attempts, the Crimson still managed to stay in the game until the final minute of play when they blew several scoring opportunities and the victory...
...kept him in red hot contention. On the 18th hole, he needed a 25-footer for a total of 285 that, as it turned out, would have tied him with Billy Casper for the $5,300 top prize. But then his touch left him. He missed the 25-footer, blew his second putt, finally settled for seventh money of $1,400, behind Casper and five other players. Even then he did better than Arnold Palmer, who wound up shooting a 293, was later disqualified for playing a provisional ball illegally in the third round...
Foul shots by Denny Lynch and Len Strauss followed by a jump shot by Strauss brought the Crimson within three points, but Harvard blew several scoring opportunities in the last minute of play...