Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winds of Russia's winter blew very little that was good for the Soviet Union this year. The Central Statistical Administration of the U.S.S.R. last week released its figures on the performance of the Soviet economy in the first three months of 1979, and they were bleak. The coldest winter in 75 years sent temperatures plummeting to -45° C in Moscow suburbs and severely damaged pipes, power lines, railway beds, trucks and roads across the country. Never a strong point of the Soviet economy, transportation became a major national problem as a late spring delayed necessary repairs...
...West Germans protested plans to build an underground nuclear dump near Groleban in northern Germany. They began chanting "We All Live in Pennsylvania," and the slogan was soon picked up by demonstrators back in the U.S. Major demonstrations occurred in Japan, in Denmark, and in other nations. French saboteurs blew up millions of dollars worth of nuclear equipment destined for Iraq. The people of the industrialized world have begun turning against nuclear power, but their governments are wedded to the nuclear industry...
...with his wife and first-born child. A chief had his eyes punched out, then he was pulled into his grass hut and burned alive with one of his sons. A businessman readily gave them $400 to $500 at a time, but one day they stopped his car and blew his head away. They had 'information' that he was not a good person. Later they found out they were misinformed. So they went back to the informant and shot...
Last week not much writing was being done. His home phonewhere his movie will play and found some of them wanting: new screens and projectors had to be ordered to "keep Manhattan from looking like The Day the Earth Blew Up." Equally unsatisfactory was the typeface in a full-page Sunday New York Times ad for the film: a new mock-up awaited his inspection. The most annoying problem was the Motion Picture Association's decision to slap Manhattan with an R rating because of a few four-letter words. Allen was not pleased: "People say that the industry...
THEY ADVERTISED this book: "The Sixties died on April 19, 19 6." Phil Ochs dangling from his belt jammed in the bathroom doorway; it marked the end, we are told, of an era that blew away with his ashes...