Word: blew
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Then Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir blew it, big. He has always vowed never to give up an inch of territory, and he did not change that stance; he devoted half of his 34-minute speech to a recitation of the oppression of Jews through centuries and indeed millenniums. There was little in his speech to suggest a willingness to compromise, and he followed up on Friday with a bitter blast at Syria's brutality and tyranny. But Shamir was playing less to world opinion than expressing deep convictions that also work for him politically back home...
Fullback Amy Belisle's penalty stroke blew by the goalie's stick side and thumped against the backboard...
With these offensive gems, why, then, is Tosches so dismayed? It's possible that Princeton got a little superstitious over the course of the past few weeks and that Saturday's game blew a whole in its confidence...
...when the referee finally blew the last whistle, the Harvard women's soccer team had upset 20th-ranked Providence College at Ohiri Field yesterday...
...blew it," Joe said. "Happens sometimes, you know...