Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Often the groups are led by women, partly because of the radicals' active support of the feminist movement. Their heroines are Bernardine Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground, and Joanne Chesimard, a highly visible member of the Black Liberation Army. Their martyrs include Diana Oughton, who accidentally blew herself up while making bombs for the Weather Underground, and Tamara Bunke, known as "Tania," the Argentine-born revolutionary who was killed while fighting with Che Guevara in Bolivia and from whom Patty Hearst took her own revolutionary name. Wrote Dohrn in Prairie Fire, the Weather Underground's heavily...
Angleton described how helpful the CIA had been in the case of the Weatherpeople who blew up a Manhattan town house, where they were making bombs in 1970. FBI files contained little information about one of the fugitives, Kathy Boudin. The CIA, on the other hand, was able to supply more than 50 intercepted letters dealing with Boudin's activities...
Acorn's tally came at 43:02 after he had failed to convert on numerous chances. "We played some good soccer and created some good scoring chances in the first half," Ford said, "But we blew...
...most of the Harvard runners, though, yesterday's race was one which had best be forgotten. What happened, quite simply, was that, in the words of McCurdy, "they blew us out with a fast, early pace, and we're just not ready to run that hard that early. Fitzsimmons looked really good, but everything else went in the other direction...
...HOUSE. The fragile relations between the House committee and the White House blew apart in a fierce fight over who has the right to release sensitive documents. Officials from the Pentagon and the CIA had asked the committee to delete four seemingly innocuous words ("and greater communications security") before making public a top-secret document on Egypt's military preparations for the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The officials argued that disclosure of the phrase would reveal to Egypt and the Soviet Union that the U.S. had mastered their codes and communications arrangements. But the committee reasoned that the codes...