Word: blew
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That might have restored Giuseppe's peace, but what he did not count on was Fortunata's anger upon learning that she had been traded for a secondhand truck. She blew the whistle, and soon the police were asking questions. They wanted to know if the women were being used as prostitutes; they denied it. The police asked just how Mariannina's husband's pension check was used. The answer was unclear. So now the authorities have charged Giuseppe with pandering and selling his harem's offspring, and they have taken him away. His wife...
DIED. Elvin C. Stakman, 93, pre-eminent plant pathologist who led the war against wheat diseases; in St. Paul. Combating the fungus diseases called rusts, he attached Vaseline-coated slides to plane wings in 1921 and by collecting the parasitic red spores in the air, proved that the disease blew seasonally across the nation. A member of the University of Minnesota faculty (1909-53) and the Rockefeller Foundation, "Stak" increased the world's wheat yields by breeding new, hardier strains as the fungi also continued to evolve. "Find out all you have to buck," he once said, "and then...
...high-powered machinery at a slow pace and keep on the payroll workers who do not have much to do). But the annual report of the Council of Economic Advisers, submitted to Jimmy Carter last week and sent by the President to Congress with a covering letter, pretty well blew away that theory. Productivity, the CEA pointed out in the report, has not recovered during the past two years of expansion. In fact, productivity throughout the private economy rose only 1.6% in 1977 and a miserable .4% last year. Indeed, the report pessimistically suggests that the U.S. may be entering...
This season they were expected to pick up right where they left off. At first, everything appeared to be going according to plan. The fast-breaking Lions jumped off to a 9-4 record and even blew out St. Johns, 90-77. Then came what they are billing here as the "lost weekend." After blitzing Cornell, 82-62, the Lions suffered back-to-back losses to Brown and Yale last weekend and have now been virtually erased from the Ivy League title picture...
...last week as the 96th Congress convened. Virginia's new Republican Senator, John Warner, hoisted his famous wife, Elizabeth Taylor, onto a table so that she could greet the crowd; later she blew kisses to her husband from the Senate gallery as he was sworn in. The Senate's only woman member, Republican Nancy Kassebaum, pleaded with visitors from her native Kansas: "Please don't ask me what it's like to be the only woman in the Senate. I don't know yet. Maybe in a month or two I will know." Republican Jake...