Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson upset Dartmouth Saturday night, 45 to 40. Coach Floyd Wilson's five, as usual, got off to a big lead in the first half. And, as usual, they blew it in the second half. But after the Crimson had endured an agonizing ten-minute famine without a basket and the Green had taken a 39-33, Harvard rallied and closed the gap to one point. Then Merle McClung hit on a pair of foul shots, and Fran Martin and Leo Scully connected on field goals, giving the Crimson the victory. Scully paced Harvard's scoring with 13 points...
...route, the radiator froze in the subzero weather. That fixed, they were only a few miles farther when a tire blew out. The kids were crying and the wives shivering with cold and panic when, at last, they arrived at Drewitz, the most heavily guarded checkpoint on the entire Autobahn to Berlin. It was no time to stop and reconsider...
...just once a week, 14 times a season, and it is often standing room only. Last year the National Football League filled 76% of the seats in its stadiums (v. big-league baseball's 34%), and this year the N.F.L. sold half its seats before the first whistle blew. The income: upward of $20 million...
Last winter campus conservatives invited Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater to speak at the university; campus liberals got indignant, and a raucous row blew up. Echoes from that battle were still lingering this fall when a wild and woolly student called Goldwater a "murderer" in an article in the campus newspaper. Admirers of Goldwater protested, and so did a lot of other citizens...
...astronomers' keenest interest is focused on much more distant space, from which the waves bring news of strange occurrences. The third strongest single source in the sky is a famous astronomical object, the Crab Nebula, the turbulent, gaseous wreck of a star that turned into a supernova and blew itself to shreds on July 11, 1054 A.D.-an event that was duly recorded by Chinese astronomers. After 908 years, the Crab's gases are still churning violently, and as the electrons that they contain move through magnetic fields, they still send out a vast amount of radio energy...