Word: blow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long fingers fluttered, his hands twirled, his palms undulated in an assortment of uniquely personal and specific hand signals. Clenched fists brought forth hard, crashing sounds. He touched index finger to thumb to produce tiny streams of pizzicato noises. Occasionally a player would press down a trumpet valve without blowing, and let it go just for the click. Or another would blow through a trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into a fascinatingly rich texture of abstract, color...
...prowls all over the stage in slow-motion. Chuck Berry, handsome smiling face, these days with long flowing black hair, playing his guitar with jerks of the forearm as if he were drawing water from a well, playing a boogie to blow Bill Haley's mind. He ends the set with a triumphant "Go, Go Johnny, Johnny B. Goode" and is gone waving his guitar...
...suit accuses Detroit of "hindering and delaying" the development of antipollution devices as far back as 1953. It focuses on a "blow-by" connection that cuts down the outflow of hydro carbons and carbon monoxide by feeding unburned gasoline in the crankcase back into the engine. The blow-by, developed by G.M., costs the consumer from $5 to $10. It has been used on a royalty-free basis on all cars, starting with 1963 models. According to the Justice Department, the automakers could have installed the blow-by connectors a year earlier but agreed among them selves on a delay...
...identified in the Government suit, a number of them, including W. R. Grace and American Machine & Foundry, have developed devices for control of automobile exhaust pollution. In the case of those two companies, Detroit rejected their exhaust-control systems and adopted two of its own. Along with the older blow-by devices, the two newer systems are standard equipment - at a cost to the consumer of up to $50 each - on current Detroit models...
...Paine Hall sit-in has been widely interpreted as a blow struck in behalf of the greater representation of student opinion in Faculty decisions. But is such as interpretation accurate? In my view, this analysis of the sit-in is quite misleading and, in some respects, almost the reverse of the truth...