Word: blew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. A grenade was tossed into a French military vehicle in West Beirut, wounding one soldier. Several French soldiers out jogging were sprayed by automatic weapons fire; two were wounded, one seriously. In one of the worst incidents of violence in West Beirut in recent months, a car bomb blew up outside the Palestine Research Center and the temporary Libyan embassy, turning both buildings into infernos. At least 20 people were killed and 70 wounded...
Having played a sensational Beanpot contest versus Boston College and lost, the Crimson was fired up from the start and practically blew Providence right...
There was a grim reminder last week of other risks, those that go with the lingering Syrian and Palestinian presence in divided Lebanon. A car packed with explosives blew up in front of a Palestine Liberation Organization command center 30 miles east of Beirut in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley, killing at least 32 Syrians and Palestinians. An anti-P.L.O. group calling itself the Front to Liberate Lebanon from Foreigners claimed responsibility for the attack...
...zero," Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone aimed a glove-covered finger at a button in his Tokyo residence. The prime-ministerial pressure detonated a dynamite charge 440 miles north of Tokyo and 780 ft. beneath the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Honshu and Hokkaido islands. The blast blew away the final rock separating two pilot tunnels under the strait that have been boring toward each other for the past 18 years...
True, as Harvard Coach Bill Cleary noted, "we had too many good opportunities in the first period and blew them." And Harvard did look unusually disorganized in its own zone, especially later in the game...