Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somebody tell Bokassa he blew the Napoleonic bit when he imported Chateau Lafite and Chateau Mouton. The favorite wine of his hero was Chambertin, a Burgundy...
Another time, Satch is believed to have begun fantasizing on the bench. In his dream, Harvard was on the verge of winning an important game. Then the ref blew the whistle in his ear, and Sanders arose--only to find that, alas, it was only a dream...
...Israeli official, trying to sum up Middle East events, turned to metaphor: "It was a storm that blew away the old leaves and limbs and left Sadat and Begin at the top of a very high tree, precariously balanced and swaying in the wind. Now they will have to grasp each other's hands to keep from falling...
...especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light, somewhat like the turn-of-the-century Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin seven years ago had Viet Nam for a rationale. The West German terrorists, who command no support in the working class, have only a vague feeling of solidarity with the Third World and a homicidal hatred of their...
...ikes of Boxing Illustrated and Pioneer West), eight printing plants and an ink-making concern. The firm, Quebecor Inc., had sales last year of $104 million and is listed on the American Stock Exchange. Péadeau (or "Pile-o-dough," as he is sometimes called in Canada) blew into Philadelphia only three months ago, quietly hired a staff of 50 local journalists and rented typewriter space for them in a vacant A&P supermarket across Market Street from the Bulletin. Péladeau pays the Bulletin to set type for the Journal, and three small suburban dailies to print...