Word: blew
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...difference between the first half and the second was astounding. In the opening 45 minutes Harvard had difficulty maintaining offensive pressure and controlling the ball, while in the second half, the Cornell offense barely touched the ball. One factor was the gusty wind which blew into the Crimson booters faces in the first half and was at then backs in the second...
...medication marketed by Pfizer Inc. under the brand name Procardia. Introduced with a splashy campaign after approval in January, the drug racked up $17 million in sales in twelve weeks, vastly outselling verapamil, a similar product marketed by the Searle and Knoll pharmaceutical companies. Late last month the FDA blew the whistle. In a ten-page letter issued to Pfizer, the agency complained that the Procardia campaign was "false and misleading in its overall message," and that by misrepresenting important warnings, it "increases the risk of serious adverse reactions to patients." Procardia is a valuable treatment for chest pain (angina...
...crisis blew up suddenly. The U.S. discovered that the Soviet Union, despite repeated and solemn denials, was installing nuclear missiles in Cuba. An American U-2 spy plane came back with photographs of the bases and their support facilities under construction: clear, irrefutable evidence. Kennedy assembled a task force of advisers. Some of them wanted to invade Cuba. In the end, Kennedy chose a course of artful restraint; he laid down a naval quarantine. After six days, Khrushchev announced that the Soviet missiles would be dismantled...
Hannah, 60, a wealthy Houston land developer and space buff, had failed on his first try: a year ago, near the same Matagorda launching pad, SSI's inaugural rocket, built for $1.2 million by a young self-taught engineer, blew up during a test of its liquid-fuel engine. Chastened, Hannah got serious. He hired an experienced California contractor who had built 22 rockets for the Government, got a solid-fuel Minuteman motor from the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (cost: $365,000), and hired Slayton and seven other full-time employees to help...
Somehow the pilot managed to pull up the nose of the Ilyushin, but the plane still hit the runway so hard that its tires blew out. Then, one by one, the bleeding hijackers were dragged feet first down the aisle and out of the plane. Three of them were unconscious, and the American passengers were convinced that at least two were dead, although Chinese authorities later insisted that all had survived...