Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Columbia's terrible trio had been dealt with, so to speak, Harvard was staring up from the bottom end of a 12-0 whitewash. However, the worst was yet to come, as George Baker (142 lbs.) blew an 8-2 lead on the way to an 11-9 loss in one of the match's pivotal contests...
WHRB went off the air around 2:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon when a capacitor, a component of the station's transmitter, blew out. A replacement part had to be flown in from a Quincy, Ill. manufacturer, finally arriving at Logan Airport Sunday afternoon...
Neither of us expected it to last, of course--she tunneling towards thesis and medical school, me jabbing a reporter's typewriter in suburbia. Still, when it blew, I wasn't ready. Harvard was over...
Last week Provos from the South Armagh Battalion hijacked and blew up a freight train from Dublin to Belfast just after it crossed the border into Ulster. No one was killed, but the explosion caused $400,000 worth of damage. A major catastrophe was barely averted when a southbound passenger train screeched to a halt just before colliding with the destroyed freight cars. Moreover, in what may mean even more intense sectarian violence in the future, County Armagh is emerging as the center of breakaway I.R.A. factions. These extremist groups reject the willingness of some Provo leaders to discuss with...
...base of my neck spreads downward into the cavities separating each vertebra. As Evans slows for a 20-second refueling stop, I get out. The race will last five more hours. Only 31 of the 111 cars that started will finish, not including Evans' Chevy-a transmission seal blew. I'm certainly not a winner. Nevertheless I walk from Walker's smoking truck with a trophy: an empty barf...