Word: blow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST MARCH I was in Kissimmee, Florida watching my beloved Boston Red Sox blow an early lead and lose a spring training game to the Houston Astros. Although I was upset by the way the Sox lost--on a late-inning home run hit off reliever Calvin Schiraldi--I left the stadium excited about the season ahead...
...dark, deserted sandlot behind the elementary school, I fumbled with a match, burning my fingers on the first try, dropping it on the second. I finally connected flame to fuse, trembling in anticipation of a blow-up in my face. BOOM. A flaming pink ball shot out. I could feel the explosive force as I clenched the "Thunder Buster" roman candle tube, and I began to aim thundering blasts of white, green and pink at the battalion of surrounding trees--my own sandlot Star Wars...
...student involved in the window-breakingsaid he and his three companions decided not tocome forward to University officials about theiractions for fear of being seen as racists."Because of Dartmouth and Howard Beach it seemedwe were really going to take a hosing for this.Better to let it blow over, which it did," thestudent involved in breaking the window said...
...senior end delivered a crunching blow, and dropped Fox for a six-yard loss. On the following play, Harvard's Kris Thabit blocked an attempted Columbia punt, and who else but Hirshland recovered the ball for the TD that put the game in the bag for Harvard...
...most surprising blow to Bork was dealt by the American Bar Association, which damned him with divided praise. Though the A.B.A.'s committee voted to grant Bork its highest rating, "well qualified," four of the 15 members felt that the judge was "not qualified." Given that the A.B.A. has unanimously approved the vast majority of court nominees over the past three decades, the number of dissents was striking. While most critics have attacked Bork on ideological grounds, the A.B.A. dissenters were not supposed to have even considered the judge's political philosophy. According to the committee's official guidelines, members...