Word: blew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gusts of wind blew garbage bags and loose trashacross the Yard, and even the Christmas treeoutside the Inn at Harvard appeared ready totopple over...
Sept. 14 Gaza Strip 1 Palestinian his explosive belt blew...
...Czechs believe the toxins drifted over ground troops after allied forces blew up an Iraqi chemical installation 100 miles northwest of Kuwait. U.S. defense officials have rejected that idea because they believe the wind was blowing in the opposite direction -- back into Iraq. Furthermore, they found no evidence of casualties caused by chemical agents anywhere near the site of the attack...
However, Philpott had charged towards the net to go for a rebound with a man on him, and Mack Trucks just don't come to a full stop very quickly. In a matter of seconds, the net was resting against the boards, the referee's whistle blew to stop the play and the two magnetic rods that hold the net in place had also been uprooted...
About 6,000 fire fighters scurried around the state, using every method from pumper trucks to air-dropped flame retardant to 100-gal. buckets slung under helicopters and dunked in the Pacific for refills. But they could not stop the flames while the ill winds blew. Before the week was out, the 1993 acreage devoured by fire would jump by 187,000; President Clinton would declare six California counties federal disaster areas; and California Governor Pete Wilson would say, "It's pretty heartbreaking to look down from a helicopter and see these little orange squares glowing in the blackness...