Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, the meet emerged as a hard-fought duel between Princeton and Harvard, with Yale finishing a distant third on the rain-soaked 4.45 mile course. An icy wind which blew steadily at 25 mph kept the temperature down to 36 degrees for the race...
...other action, Princeton blew over hapless Brown, 31-10, in a battle between two contenders for the Ivy cellar...
...Viet Nam on a quiet evening in December 1946. Ho Chi Minh, bitterly realizing that his months of negotiation for independence from the French had failed, ordered that the electrical plants all over the country be mined; at 8 o'clock that night nearly all of them blew up simultaneously. That same evening, Viet Minh troops attacked French garrisons North and South. The war for independence was under way, and the precision of its inception was to be echoed for the next 26 years...
EXPLODING parcels suddenly turned up in Arab mailboxes last week, only a month after a similar wave of deadly letter bombs had been sent from Amsterdam to Israelis round the world. In Beirut, one package exploded in the central post office, injuring three workers; another blew up in an export-import firm operated by a Palestinian, wounding a secretary and an office boy. A letter bomb to a Beirut newspaper was disarmed. In Cairo, postal employees spotted and defused a package mailed from Belgrade. In Algiers, a package wounded the secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization office, to whom...
...cocktail party for the men he has often used as foils: the reporters who cover him. Relaxed, smiling and exchanging wisecracks, he accepted the gag gift of a policeman's whistle from newsmen. That night, as he was heckled at the College of Southern Idaho, Agnew suddenly blew a piercing blast with his new toy and shouted: "Wrong!" The startled audience gasped, then broke into loud applause...