Word: blow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a fuss over doctors' offices? Because few public arenas provide such a large captive audience. These page-flipping patients not only are counted in readership surveys used to determine advertising rates but often end up as subscribers. Losing such readers would be a severe blow to magazines like Expecting and PEOPLE, which find a substantial share of their audience in the waiting rooms...
...airport X-ray machines but which family members insisted was too valuable to put in the cargo hold. About halfway through the long journey, the trouble began. Two of the Ovechkin sons produced sawed-off rifles from the instrument case and handed the flight attendant a note, threatening to blow up the plane unless it was diverted "to a capitalist country, to London...
...Hollywood. He also takes advantage of the occasion to write one of his better lyrics: "The day that the Pope came to New York/It really was comical/The Pope wore a yarmulke." Ronnie, tired of being told he is a failure, goes AWOL from Fort Dix and plans to blow up the Pope...
...pedestrian, a middle-aged man, had jumped forward to avoid the car but was flipped into the air by a glancing blow from the vehicle, said a Harvard student who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. The man's elbow broke the windshield of the car on impact, but he was talking and walking after the accident without any visible injuries...
...another reason--it would be on the terms it has set. In 1984 the administration won a federal suit with the NLRB forcing the union to enlarge its organizing area from the Medical Area's 700 workers to the entire campus's 4000. What was designed as a fatal blow to force the union to organize an area larger than it could handle turned into an organizing success--attracting wider attention and support for the cause...