Word: blew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many pleasantly neurotic Harvard students find themselves in. Randomization has effectively cut down the options if one wants to live with different people but not necessarily transfer out of the house. In the past, several blocking groups of friends could have chosen the same houses. If a living situation blew up in a thrilling explosion of emotion or quietly decayed into unhappiness, there were more likely to be some same-sex pals around who one could plan to live with in the upcoming year. However that option is rarely a choice now. With randomization most blocking groups are small islands...
While the overall effort was poor for the laxmen, certain aspects of their game appeared impressive. They were able to convert 50 percent of their man-up opportunities and only blew one clear. In addition, Harvard junior Doug Crofton scored a career-high four goals...
...Albanian army units rumbled toward them, roadblocks sprouted all across the south last week. Insurgents blew up bridges to keep government tanks out of town and seized police stations and looted military arsenals. The insurgents are now armed with automatic weapons and grenades, even a few tanks and patrol boats...
...Millstone scandal began when Galatis blew the whistle on Northeast's 20-year habit of breaking safety rules during routine refueling operations at Millstone 1--moving all of the radioactive fuel rods into the plant's spent-fuel storage pool even though the pool, crowded with thousands of old fuel rods, was licensed to handle the full core only on an emergency basis. To save precious off-line minutes, Northeast would start moving the fuel so quickly after shutdown that the heat melted a worker's protective boots...
...trouble is Good Morning America," he says. "It clearly needs to be fixed, and we're doing that." Yet insiders say Arledge is more concerned than he lets on. Two months ago, at a regularly scheduled morning meeting in which the day's work plans are laid out, Arledge blew up when he heard that new White House correspondent John Donvan was unavailable to cover President Clinton that day because he was busy helping his family move. Arledge used it as an excuse to lecture the troops about complacency, citing as examples the established N.F.L. teams that had been beaten...