Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Willie and the girl, Lolita, lit out for the Mohave Desert. He could normally have hidden on tiny reservations until the trouble blew over, since Indian killing was a matter of little concern to the white community. But at that time, it happened that President Taft was making a cross-country tour, followed by a bored and weary press corps looking for a story to break the whistle-stop monotony. They found what they wanted in Riverside, Calif...
...Blew Them Both
...Yale kept trying to make it up, and had two good opportunities in the third quarter, one off a corner kick and the other off a penalty kick, but the Elis blew them both. A fine play by Crimson goalie Bill Meyers off the penalty kick preserved the shutout, Harvard's eighth of the season...
They almost blew it at the Justice Department-the Mobe, not the militants. The militants had made certain promises and kept them. The Mobe should not have asked more. In the face of the overriding futility of any kind of protest in this country today it is important that everyone act, it is not important how they...
...Down Constitution Avenue, near the Justice Department, people were chanting and shouting. "Venting their frustration with Justice," as one Washington paper put it. How strange it would look if the building blew up. I said to a friend. At that moment tear gas bombs began to explode. Thick clouds of smoke rose, and thousands of people moved away. My group tried to get to the VW. ten blocks away, without being gassed. But the gas got there about the same time...