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Word: blew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then in the deciding game, Albers blew a tense game open with a second-inning grand slam, then added a single and double later...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: The Faces Behind the Box | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

With a runner on first and one out in the top of the first, Hogan threw a 1-0 fastball straight into first baseman Aaron Meyer's wheelhouse. The freshman promptly cranked the pitch into right-center, where the wind blew it over the right-field fence for a two-run home...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Blasts Big Green Machine | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Harvard added three in the third and then blew it open in the fourth. An error--one of five in the game by the Big Green--sand-wiched between two walks, loaded the bases with one out in the top of the fourth for Vankoski...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Blasts Big Green Machine | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...playing fulbito (minifootball) were bellowing "Goal!," the floor exploded under their feet. Five were killed instantly, and the others scrambled for their weapons and toward the stairs. At the same moment other plastic-explosive charges blasted more openings from the tunnels into the interior of the residence. Still others blew open on each side of the building's exterior, and one ripped up the back garden. "The whole house shook like cardboard," an army lieutenant says, and smoke billowed into the sky as automatic weapons clattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THEY DID IT | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...tunnels, firing as they came. On the balcony outside the master bedroom, the attackers found a wooden outer door still locked, though hostages had opened the inner, metal panel. One rebel fired his AK-47 through the wood and killed Lieut. Colonel Valer. Valer's troops then blew the door open with a grenade and stormed in. Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela van Bruegal-Douglas was wounded in the leg as he escaped. The commandos, intercepting guerrillas coming up from the living room, shot them down on the staircase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THEY DID IT | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

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