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Word: blew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days, playing in every scene of the film except one. Halfway through she cracked a rib when Actor Richard Gere, who plays a stud named Tony, threw her to the floor. "It was my fault," she said. "I knew how to take the fall, but I blew it. Besides, it's fun to do that wild, physical stuff. And it's nice to get really angry and scream, and then walk away from the responsibility for all that when the shooting is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...starter Luis Tiant picked up his twelfth victory as the Bostonians blew out the Tigers early and never gave them a chance to get back in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox Win But Lose As Yanks Sweep | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...feel like we're in the fifth quarter of a football game with the score 21-14 in our favor, but nobody blew the whistle yet." McKevitt said...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Consumers Rain Nickels on Congress | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...Ohio, had never heard of him. His Army service number had never been officially issued. There was no record of his birth certificate, and his old Philadelphia home address turned out to be a vacant lot in an all-black neighborhood. When court proceedings and IRS collection procedures blew his cover in 1973, Tycoon Maris was forced to leave San Francisco in terror for his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Disappearing Witnesses | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Thera, which erupted in 1500 B.C., blew the top off the Greek isle of that name and destroyed a civilization. Vesuvius, which came to life in A.D. 79, buried the town of Pompeii and its inhabitants under tons of lava and ash in hours. When Indonesia's Krakatoa exploded in 1883, it killed 35,000 people and released with a single blast the energy equivalent of 20,000 Hiroshima bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Case of Earthly Indigestion | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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