Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes out looking like something of a jerk. Sure, Creamer's case for Ruth as a great star is flawless, but in the end Creamer runs out of intimates confiding that Ruth really was the great man he was supposed to be. Ruth's life was colorful, but sportswriters blew it out of proportion. When he quipped that he deserved more money than Hoover in 1930 because he "had a better year than Hoover did" or when he addressed the president personally as "prezz" or when he failed to take his borderhouse-reach while sitting at the table...
Then, suddenly, he became a casualty of the constant tension that a covert agency must live with in an open society. As the New York Times was about to blow his cover, Angleton blew his cool. In a telephone conversation with Seymour Hersh, he let slip that the CIA had a "source" in Moscow who was "still active and still productive...
...Veniste got Colson to rebut Haldeman's testimony that he was unaware of hush-money payments. In January 1973, Colson said, he had been asked by Haldeman what would happen if Hunt "blew" (talked to investigators). "I said I thought it would be very bad... Bob [Haldeman] said, 'Then we can't let that happen.' " When Colson was finished, Chief Prosecutor James Neal told Sirica in a lawyers' conference that he was "more than willing" for the defense to "bring on more witnesses like Colson...
...camp's vice political commissar who I didn't like--a fat-faced, tough-looking character with a scar, who drove around in a chauffeured automobile, explained that soldiers on duty did not have the right to put up critical posters, and almost blew up at a hostile question about the Korean War. I might write off the People's Liberation Army because of him, except for what happened at a high school in Shanghai...
...shock waves of the pub explosions that killed 20 people and maimed 183 others in Birmingham are beginning to transform British life. After mailboxes blew up in crowded Piccadilly and two other locations last week, anti-Irish extremists retaliated by throwing fire bombs into several Irish-owned shops, homes and pubs. Lesser but ugly incidents are commonplace. At Charing Cross subway station, a man who had tried to squeeze onto a crowded train was manhandled when other passengers discovered he was Irish. Headlined the raucous tabloid...