Word: blew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry Como). So Ol' Blue Eyes blew up, understandably but in vain, about his exclusion from the Queen's smallish (50 or so) dinners aboard Britannia...
...three institutions "blew it" he says, explaining that they failed to keep pace with the swift development in the field. Academic leadership in the discipline is said to have been transferred to such universities like Carnegie-Mellon Institute, MIT, and Stanford University...
Among the more unusual strategies were the establishment of WITCH (Women's Inspirational Theological Coalition from Harvard) and a takeover of Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox's course on eschatology and liberation theology, at which the insurgents blew party noisemakers whenever any sexist comments were made, Schulman says...
...running events. Adam Dixon's outstanding kick remained true to form as he held back until the last lap and then blew the other runners away to easily capture...
...secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie had informed his superiors, who encouraged him to play along. The scandal resulted in the expulsion of 13 Soviet diplomats...