Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leading 9-4 after three quarters, Hofstra blew Harvard off the field in the final 15 minutes, pouring in five unanswered tallies...
...stir over the live, staged nudity. But for those who went as well as those who didn't, the show's nudity and all it provoked was the best thing, if not the only thing, the show had going for it. Unfortunately, Tynan and his company blew the chance to capitalize on the show's greatest asset. They finish the disrobing number three minutes after the curtain rises, lining the cast up in full nudity under cool white lights Supposedly, this was not faulty planning, buy rather a means to achieve the righteous social and artistic ends the show aims...
...young clarinetist was struggling to earn his band a name. The band played mainstream music with something extra--they blew big band jazz with an insistent get-up-and-dance beat. The band's early audiences came for the jazz, not the dance beat. At first there were problems--in Denver those who came to listen asked for their money back. But in Oakland, California, in late summer, the right audience came. They wanted that beat. They got it and loved it and the band moved on to its big break, playing Hollywood's Palomar Ballroom in a series...
...troupe acted out various scenes from text-books, illustrating the sex-role stereotypes forced on school children. In one scene, the little boys blew on their pinwheels to make them spin, while the little girls waited in vain for the wind to make their pinwheels go. "Maybe there'll be wind tomorrow," the wide-eyed and gray-bearded Ira says sweetly, as he holds up his imaginary pinwheel...
...utterly cryed downe and not to be used." James was increasingly alarmed by the golf mania sweeping his realm, which was distracting able-bodied men from the archery practice required during wartime. "Fiery face" later met an untimely and befitting death when he was killed by a cannon that blew up while he was inspecting the muzzle...