Word: blew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Crimson distance runners, including Kate Stricker, were in the stands, but freshman Kristin Perini gave the fans a taste of things to come when the cross country runners return to competition. The Yardling simply blew her competition away in the 3000, taking first place by more than nine seconds...
...most withering of terrorist bomb attacks. The building was put to the test last week: a white Fiat, packed with 33 Ibs. of dynamite, exploded just outside the employee parking lot. The blast killed a Colombian woman standing near by, knocked down several 50-year-old eucalyptus trees and blew out windows in a 15-story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure any of the 309 people inside. Said an embassy employee: "They'd have had to hit us with an atom bomb...
...Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week's attack was U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs, who is in the habit of leaving the embassy each day at about the time the bomb exploded. Six months earlier, a car laden with explosives blew up prematurely outside his official residence...
When Penn Square collapsed in July 1982, it blew the cover on the dubious management of more established banks. Penn Square's failure led directly to Continental Illinois' near disaster two years later; it also cost Chase Manhattan, the third largest U.S. bank, more than $200 million...
...David Odell's "Supergirl" script keeps the comic at the cost of coherence. The plot has holes large enough to fit the planet of Krypton through, even before it blew up into tiny bits of Kryptonite...