Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening last week a well-dressed woman walked casually into the powder room of Caracas' Hotel Tamanaco, the favorite Venezuelan hotel for well-heeled U.S. tourists and businessmen. Minutes after she left, a thunderous explosion blew out the powder-room walls, shattered glass in the lobby, wrecked the interior of the cocktail lounge and injured five persons. Timed to coincide with the Tamanaco blast, a hail of fire from machine guns and mortars poured into an army motor pool on the other side of town. Troops returned the fire, and for two hours many of the expectant mothers...
...crown it all, the Dodgers went into the last inning of the last game leading the Giants 4-2-and then blew it, just as they had in 1951, when Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer to give the Giants the pennant. Only this time, no crashing homer won the game. It came in with a bases-loaded walk...
...book Annapolis man." but they forgave him because he was such a good pilot. He flew 90 missions, mostly ground strafing and low-level bombing. His missions got him credit for 1½ MIGs, a Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals. He also buzzed a U.S. camp, blew down lines of tents and was hotly reprimanded...
...hitting was atrocious. The Giants left a total of 30 runners stranded high and dry on the bases. The Dodgers, shut out in their last two regular-season games, kept right on holding their breaths and bats for 14 agonizing playoff innings-and then, with a mighty sigh, blew across seven runs in a single frame...
...from an aggressive jackass. Even the clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist's tent...