Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace of the race was far slower than anything that the harriers had experienced in this yet early season. "It wasn't one of those paces that blew you out, like last weekend's meet," McCurdy said. The winning time was 27:21, over a minute off the course record set by Rojas. It must have seemed like a leisurely stroll through the park...
...before the takeoff from Amsterdam, but once the Pan American 747 was aloft they pulled pistols from crotch holsters and announced that they were hijacking the plane on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They ordered the plane to Cairo and eventually blew it up. That was in September 1970. While worrying about the series of Arab hijackings, Pan American also had a more mundane problem: Who was going to pay for its $24,288,759 plane? Was the 747 covered by the regular "all-risk" insurance issued by a group of 30 companies? Or were...
...Montreal blew what was probably its last chance to stay in contention as the Pirates scored a 3-0 victory paced by Willie Stargell's 43rd homer. In the first game of the twinighter played before a standing room only crowd in Montreal the Expos gave their fans something to cheer about as they chased Pittsburgh starter Bob Moose for a 5-4 victory. Steve Renko got his 15th win against 11 losses...
...attache. The letter bore a United Kingdom postmark, indicating that it had been sent through the British army postal service. Other than that the letter was slightly heavier and thicker than most letters, she noticed nothing unusual about it. When Mrs. Murray opened the envelope, a spring-loaded bomb blew off her left hand, sprayed pellets into her face and arms, and blasted out two windows from the chancery's sixth floor office...
This year, Tokyoites have had still more reminders that they are, in effect, sitting on a volcano. Mount Asama, 85 miles northwest of Tokyo, literally blew its top in February. Three months later, there was an upheaval in the Pacific seabed that lifted part of the bottom of the Bonin Trench an astonishing 6,000 ft., forming a new volcano north of Iwo Jima. In June came a major quake in Hokkaido, though it caused no deaths...