Search Details

Word: blew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...briskly as the Cambridge winds blew the Tigers onto Ohiri Field Saturday morning, the Harvard men's soccer team blew them right back...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Booters Steamroll Tigers, 5-0; Rajballie, Singh Lead the Way | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

After Harvard and Princeton traded field goals in the second period, the Tigers blew a chance to tie it when holder Brad Hammond bobbled the snap on a routine 33-yd. attempt. Nothing was going like it was supposed...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Kicking and Screaming | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

Police and firefighters, however, were not amused. In the last month, unidentified terrorists have placed bombs in three separate mailboxes in Cambridge and Boston, one of which blew up in the face of a policeman who was removing the explosive...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: B-School Joke Turns Into Scare | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...FRIDAY was truly an extraordinary day. For the first time in 47 years, a hurricane had made it to Harvard Square. The excitement was tremendous. School was canceled; history seemed to be in the making. The wind blew. Trees fell. Leaves flew. And people waited. Uneasy anticipation. Something was going to happen...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, | Title: Dealing With Gloria | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...private session with journalists last week, French President Francois Mitterrand described it as "criminal and absurd . . . and stupid." Indeed, whoever blew up and sank the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmental organization, in New Zealand's Auckland harbor last July did not do France or its President any favor. As the usually pro-Mitterrand Paris daily Le Monde and other papers zeroed in on the culpability of the government in the mysterious act of sabotage, the President could no longer remain aloof from what was rapidly becoming one of France's worst political crises in the four years since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Criminal, Absurd . . . and Stupid | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | Next