Word: blew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boitano waited to take the ice Saturday night, all traces of that assumed arrogance had vanished. Hovering near the edges of the rink, he blew his nose repeatedly and nervously tightened his laces. Later he would describe the battle raging in his head as he skated to the center of the rink, one voice goading, "This is it! This is it!" while another soothed, "You know what to do." When the elaborate music of Carmine Coppola's Napoleon filled the Saddledome, Boitano inhaled deeply, then focused his 16 years of training on the moment...
...Wind blew so cold and hard at the rocky summit of Mount Allan Sunday morning, when Alpine ski racing was supposed to blast off with the men's downhill, that the question was not whether the event would be canceled for the day but whether gatekeepers and photographers not protected by the start house could survive until officials admitted that the mountain gods were in no mood for a ski race. Back at ABC's hype central, talkers with dead air to fill turned to -- who else? -- Dr. Ruth, TV's advice giver to the sexlorn. Bearing in mind that...
Owing to a simple wisdom and a gust of wind, the Canadians stuck to human sentiments: happy children were the heart of the show. Kept to a blessed minimum were gimmicks like an inflatable mountain that wouldn't inflate and obligingly blew away. Folk dances prevailed, so much sweeter than production numbers, and the prancing horses of the Mounties outdid the screeching jets. Lassos twirled, cowboys strummed guitars, and a twelve-year-old girl lighted the candle...
...toes to reach the Olympic cauldron. Two years short of the competitors' minimum age, the local whiz kid represented youth's considerable promise; also, bravery. A week earlier, before the thermometer shot from 11 degrees below to 45 degrees and back to 21 degrees again, the Olympic torch blew up spectacularly. Engineers called it a "minor malfunction," but Perry may have wished for a longer handle...
...some advertiser purchased NESN time, and those commercials had to run. So virtually every time the referee blew the whistle for a face-off, the Harvard and B.C. players had to sit around twiddling their thumbs for about a minute while the few viewers at home watched a commercial for new cars...