Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesmen, early morning workers had been trying to remove some radioactive water from the pump building. As the water flowed into a storage tank, the temperature and pressure rose. A valve automatically opened, letting some of the gas escape. The building's ventilation system sucked up the gas and blew it out a stack. At that moment, a state and federal monitoring crew flying over the stack recorded an alarming increase in radiation...
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the Harvard men's fencing team blew a 13-10 lead over Columbia in the Lions' den Saturday, to lose its final Ivy League meet of the year, 14-13, and finish fourth in the final Ivy League standings...
This guy has been mailing his film columns in from Lincoln for a long time, and nobody had ever met him or even laid eyes on him. He was horribly disfigured many years ago, when a projector blew up in his face, but even that little incident didn't diminish his love for "la cine," as we say in France...
...five bucks for a movie is an outrage--although you guys'll have to pay $25 to get your car out of hock--and frankly. I almost didn't go. Dolby or no Dolby. That music--Christ--I still have a headache. And the gun shots--every time they blew up a face I hit the roof. It was very well filmed. Vilmos Zsigmond is a genius. Well edited. Those weren't Pennsylvania mountains, though. Man, it was elaborately bogus--the choral music in the mountains, the Russian Orthodox Church that looked like the Vatican--and those scenes...
...their finest effort of the season, the icemen blew the Red Raiders away with five second-period goals. Precision passing, strong goaltending and opportunistic scoring marked the Crimson's departure from the style of hockey that has produced a most disappointing record...