Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fuller has just written a true, tragic account of Seveso. Italy, a town ravaged by a toxic chemical. The "Italian Hiroshima" occurred shortly after noon on July 10, 1976, when a chemical reactor at Icmesa, a plant owned by the Swiss firm of Hoffmann-La Roche, overheated, then blew its safety valve and released a huge grayish cloud into the clear Italian sky. Workers and company officials assumed that the cloud and the droplets that fell from it onto homes, gardens and livestock were composed of trichlorophenol, an irritating but nonfatal chemical. But the overheating reactor sent the temperature...
Chipman had one long successful streak in the final round during which he took 12 of 15 bouts. However, as he said yesterday, he "blew" his chances at the beginning and the end of the finals as he lost five of his first six as well as his last two duels...
Chipman admitted that by the end of Saturday the 30 bouts he had fenced in three days had worn him out mentally. However, he still blamed himself for losing bouts when he shouldn't have, particularly at the beginning. "I blew it against idiots. It was stupid of me not to give myself enough time to warm up Saturday." he said yesterday...
...Roland). Lindell held Zevon's wages in escrow, in case of either dire need or sudden good fortune. Jackson Browne, who had got friendly with Zevon back in Hollywood, wrote him in care of the Dubliner Bar inviting him to return stateside and cut a record. Warren blew the escrow account to get halfway home; a gig in London with the Everly Brothers provided the final funding...
...midst of handball-ignorant Harvard, the finish was a bit disappointing. As the tournament's number-one seed, he had received a first-round bye. But then Acosta lost his opening match, going to an 11-point tie-breaker in the third and decisive set. "I kinda blew it," he said last night...