Word: blew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the city, dumping hail, downing power lines, flooding streets. For a brief time chaos reigned. But shortly after the polls closed in last week's runoff election, it was apparent that a bigger gale had been spawned by Agnos himself. The candidate, once a little-known state assemblyman, blew away John Molinari, president of San Francisco's board of supervisors, with an overwhelming 70% of the vote. A voluble former social worker who arrived in San Francisco from Springfield, Mass., in 1966, Agnos, 49, becomes the first non-native to run the city in 40 years. Ever mindful...
...says a Soviet official with close ties to the military: "Our generals were more determined than ever to get the American missiles out and to keep them out. The general staff concluded that Brezhnev really blew it by provoking the U.S. into installing the Pershing IIs in the first place and then not having the wit to make a deal to get rid of them...
Just look at the facts, please. Such as the four-goal third period at New Haven that blew the Elis off the ice. Or the last-period comeback against Princeton where Harvard, down by three goals, tied the game within a span of eight minutes and won on a Tod Hartje overtime goal...
...Crimson is a sad replica of what it once was. The Harvard whirlwind, which blew to three NCAA tournament appearances in the last three years...
...stalls in the city of Naga, 140 miles southeast of Manila. At night she prays hard, begging for protection against disasters that may strike at her, at her city, at her country. But the troubles keep coming closer. Two months ago rebels of the Communist New People's Army blew up four strategic bridges, severing rail lines between Naga and Manila. Soon after, the army escalated its war with the N.P.A., further disrupting the local economy. Then the market where San Buenaventura sold kalamansi burned to the ground. Crossing herself, the fruit vendor offers a prayer for President Corazon Aquino...