Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They blew an early 4-0 lead when Cleveland's Rick Manning triggered a six-run sixth inning...
...blew up on the front nine with a 41 before the clubhouse turn. He strung together bogeys at the start and smothered a drive into the tree-canopied rough along the seventh. He fluffed his second shot into a bunker and knocked his chip over the green for a double bogey. Vik turned things around from the twelfth hole on, after exploding from a sand to within three feet...
Again, things blew up in Lebanon, giving the rest of the world a grim sense of déjà vu. Beirut's television station suddenly interrupted a news broadcast last Thursday to present startled viewers with the grim visage of Brigadier General Aziz Ahdab, commander of the Beirut military region. In cool, measured tones, he proclaimed a state of emergency and declared that he had just taken control of the country as Military Governor. Giving no hint as to his source of support, Ahdab called on President Suleiman Franjieh and Premier Rashid Karami to resign within 24 hours...
Sweat and paint and Rayette Hairspray sat heavily in the air. A girl with brown lines painted on her face blew on a banana (tied on a string around her neck) and wistfully described the Chunky bar she had eaten for lunch. Most of the other women in the room stared into mirrors, ratting hair, applying pancake, and blowing up balloons in the empty stretches of time, all over a continual underbuzz of conversation. Three men on the far side of a partition went through a similar, if quieter process. One man paced between the two make-shift rooms, alternately...
Hershey-Webb went on. "The school I'm at now is really terrible. It blew my mind. There are seniors who can't read. If you can't read, you're nowhere. What they do all day is beat people up." Hershey-Webb said he was "trying to reform the place in my own quiet way." So far his campaign had involved writing a letter to the school paper, explaining why "their methods of teaching are wrong, and their attitudes are wrong." "Anyway," he said, "it's an experience, and that's what I wanted." He and his friend...