Word: blew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perez said Sedgwick blew his personality out of proportion as well. "I was called a fiery radical; I have to blush at that," he said. "That's not the way I see myself...
...Pauline, a San Francisco performance artist, specializes in giant machines and vast public spectacles: sonic booms that pin audiences to their chairs or the huge, stinking vat of rotting cheese with which he perfumed the air of Denmark to remind the citizenry of its Viking roots. When an explosion blew the thumb and three fingers off his right hand, Pauline simply had his big toe grafted where his thumb had been. He can pick things up again, but now he's waiting for medical science and grafting technology to advance to the point where he can replace his jerry-built...
UGUR MUMCU WAS TURKEY'S TOP INVESTIGATIVE reporter and an articulate critic of Islamic fundamentalism. When a car bomb literally blew him to pieces in Ankara, Turks naturally suspected radical fundamentalists. Ozgen Acar, his editor at Cumhuriyet, the newspaper where Mumcu had worked for the past 18 years, said the murder was the work of agents sent from Iran, "the same people who are after Salman Rushdie...
WASHINGTON--"Work hard, play hard" might have been Bill Clinton's motto last night, as he blew off presidential steam by partying with 63,000 other Americans at 12 inaugural balls across this city...
...really did think I blew it," she said. "They gave us a little spiel beforehand about how we were all winners. I was trying to take it to heart...