Word: blew
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...turning point in the season might have been when we lost two to Princeton," Hogan said. "We blew the game, but that might have been the best thing that happened to us. After that we never took an out for granted all season...
Dartmouth blew away the competition on the women's side as it took the top three finishes and won the Heps title. Princeton followed close behind and Brown took third. The defending Heps champion, Dartmouth's Maribel Sanchez, was the winner with the fastest Heps time this decade, a scorching...
...director (1924-72), we did not hear of mistakes because he flooded the media with propaganda. Today's director, Louis Freeh, is not a master cover-up artist like Hoover. For decades, FBI scientists have not been qualified as experts in their field. In 1989 Frederic Whitehurst blew the whistle on the FBI lab, and now he is viewed as the culprit. But in 1979 William C. Sullivan, former assistant director in charge of the domestic intelligence division, published a book that stated, "The FBI laboratory is in fact a real-life counterpart of the busy workroom of the Wizard...
When Harvard blew a six-run lead in the last inning against Princeton one month ago, spoiling its perfect Ivy League record, it was Marcucci who could not get a Tiger out in that two-out rally. Marcucci struck out two of three Princeton batters this time in the ninth, closing out Harvard's title...
While taking a nap in my Canaday F room, the wind (something I'm usually quite fond of) blew my alarm clock off its former resting place on my window sill to its final resting place on the steps of the dorm. Consequentially, my alarm clock broke into several pieces upon hitting the pavement. In my daze, I decided that this was an inconsequential occurrence and promptly slept, not surprisingly, for a long time. This must be the reason for the rule against removing window screens. The clock is in pieces just when I needed it the most. --Anonymous