Word: blew
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With the win, Harvard (13-9) took the first step towards erasing the memory of Sunday's painful doubleheader loss to Princeton, in which the team blew a six-run lead in the last inning of the first game...
That revelation, Bell reported on his elaborate and well-attended Website, "practically blew away my disbelieving side." It seemed to have had a similar effect on the Heaven's Gate cult members, who surmised that the spacecraft would be their vehicle for reaching "the next level...
They each took a feed from junior Doug Crofton and, on almost identical shots, blew it by Cattrano from about ten yards...
...they fiddled with three tanks of propane that were hooked to an electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they swallowed sedatives, then arranged themselves in a cross around a queen-size bed, only to rise in bleary frustration when the detonator fizzled. Finally, they blew themselves to kingdom come. For them that would be the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, nine light-years from Quebec. According to the doctrines of the Solar Temple, they will reign there forever, weightless and serene...
Which meant that the 20th century blew it apart. Some indication of the shift can be had by studying the learning curve of Billy Graham. In his 1950 Boston revival, a young Graham was ebulliently specific about the world to come. Heaven, he said, was a place "as real as Los Angeles, London, Algiers or Boston." It was "1,600 miles long, 1,600 miles wide and 1,600 miles high." Once there, "we are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets...