Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the museum's cool caverns to savor a Rembrandt and hieroglyphics. All up and down Manhattan, street musicians played-saxophones, cellos, violins, steel drums. On Park Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, across from the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building, a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players blew tunes ranging from the Beatles to Mendelssohn. One night more than 150,000 New Yorkers and visitors came to Central Park's Sheep Meadow. They laid out blankets and picnic suppers, bottles of wine and sleeping babies, and settled down to listen to the New York Philharmonic play...
Eventually, a growing power struggle between the Cathar Clergue family and a prominent Catholic family blew the whole affair into the tribunals of the Inquisition. Father Pierre and his brother Bernard, the corrupt bailiff of the town, were sentenced to prison, there to die soon after. One Cathar-a not-so-perfect parfait given to shady business dealings and fornication-was burned at the stake. Beatrice de Planissoles, the chatelaine, was released along with her latest swain, another priest-but Beatrice was sentenced to wear the yellow cross of repentant heretics. As for the zealous bishop, he went...
...election of a constituent assembly that will draft a constitution for independent Namibia. Pretoria has warned that it may reject any recommendation Ahtisaari comes up with. Meanwhile both sides have adopted a "you first" attitude that will make a cease-fire difficult to achieve. As guerrillas under his command blew up a vital water line in northern Namibia, SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma declared that "prospects for free, fair and democratic elections are increasingly doubtful, if not untenable." Until South Africa confines its 10,000 or so Namibian troops to then-bases, said Nujoma, he will not order his guerrillas...
...Ford. Needless to say, the cars have been recalled--but apparently Ford didn't get them all. Maybe they didn't try hard enough. Maybe they did. But there are a lot of Pintos, and on Friday, two little girls in Pennsylvania died when the Pinto they were in blew up after being hit from behind. That story ran as a tiny filler on an inside page. No big deal, just two more victims...
...Ismaiol blew the Harvard racquetman off the court in the opening games, charging off to a 4-1 lead before Lundy ever got into the match. Then Lundy "zoned," coming alive to play three of his best games of the year to even...