Word: blew
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...more nitty gritty "Hoochie Koochie Man," featured visceral and unaffected blues riffs that got Diddley into a veritable leg-wiggling frenzy, while the a-harp player blew distorted chops that complemented the raunchy tune...
Make that six. In a 4-3 loss to St. Lawrence, Harvard's inconsistent play doomed it to defeat, as the home team fell behind, battled back and blew the game...
...Pennsylvania Quakers (12-8, 7-2) blew an opportunity to separate themselves from the pack. The traditional Ivy powerhouse lost to Yale when Eli sophomore guard Gabe Hunterton buried a 10-foot jumper with three seconds left in regulation to give Yale...
...blueprint complete. Located in Tooele, Utah, home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months on the job. "Then they built the kiln in Tooele using the same bricks." The Army contends that Jones was fired for mismanagement; Jones says he was sacked...
Maybe a little of both. But sooner rather than later, "his irresistible Irish-American charm" and his "overwhelming, unstoppable energy" (Donen's phrases) blew away your reservations. For there was always something disarming in the forthright way that Kelly, who was born in Pittsburgh, the third of five children, and worked his way up out of the chorus line to Broadway stardom with his tough, taut performance in 1940's Pal Joey, stated his needs and his aspirations. These extended beyond the standard American desire to transcend one's past and transform one's limitations. For he was part...