Word: blew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Teaching fellows eventually presented another cake to the professor, and the students applauded as Nagy blew out the candles...
Like many a natural catastrophe, Europe's monetary storm blew up with little warning, though the clouds had been darkening since June, when Denmark narrowly rejected the Maastricht treaty. Named for the Dutch city where it was signed last February, the pact provides for the eventual political union of the European Community, a common foreign and security policy, and most important, a single European currency...
...suspects, Solomon and 16-year- old Bernard Eric Miller, will pay for the countywide crime spree. "The suspects expressed no remorse, I can tell you that," said Lieut. Daniel Davis. As Solomon was being booked for first-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping, he muttered to himself and blew kisses at a female officer. For their protection, they were held in solitary cells, where late last week Solomon was found with bed sheets tied around his neck. Jail officials were uncertain whether it was a bungled suicide attempt or an effort to get ^ transferred to a hospital, from which escape would...
...clutched our flashlights for comfort and turned on a battery operated radio to listen to the simulcast of the television news. We listened to the winds that sounded like a freight train approaching--as ceramic barrel tiles blew off the roof, trees cracked and crashed and debris flew everywhere...
...credit, Bush cut short a political trip to New Jersey last Monday and hurried to Florida to view the damage just hours after the hurricane blew through. But he stayed just an hour and a half and spent only a few minutes chatting with Florida Governor Lawton Chiles during a photo opportunity. Two days later, again anxious to show fresh tactical flexibility under newly installed chief of staff James Baker, the White House hustled Bush off to Louisiana in Andrew's wake. "The President," Bush explained to the sodden residents of New Iberia, "ought to show up when people...