Word: blow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government officials argued that the story, iftold, would strike a blow to the nation'ssecurity, and they threatened to prosecute thenewspaper...
...University--which drew attention to the big Stadium gala and the officially licensed 350th product line--took steps to try to prevent the big blow-out from looking like Statue of Liberty II. One-hundred-and-six academic symposia were scheduled and cast with an array of stars from within and without the lvory Tower. Yet, on the whole, the symposia did not place much of anything, including Harvard itself, under any serious scrutiny...
...what could be a serious blow to the Hunt clan, the craggy-faced Barefoot Sanders ruled that Placid must shift its petition for bankruptcy relief from a New Orleans court to Dallas. The banks wanted the case to be heard in Dallas, in Sanders' jurisdiction, but the Hunts hoped to avoid the judge. Sanders, a liberal Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, has never been friendly with the conservative Republican Hunts. The Hunts may fear that having Sanders on the case could hurt their chances of holding on to what is left of their dwindling assets, which have...
...Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasev suddenly loomed out of the darkness. The Admiral Nakhimov's deck officers warned it off by radio, but the big cargo ship bore down steadily and struck the starboard side of the passenger liner. "I was in my cabin when the blow came," said Chief Purser Victor Prosvirnev. "There was a power blackout. The emergency diesel generator came on, but in two or three minutes power failed again as the feeder switchboard was submerged...
...liner sank instantly due to a very unfortunate blow struck by the freighter," Deputy Maritime Fleet Minister Leonid Nedyak told a press conference in Moscow less than 48 hours after the accident. "The point of impact was between the engine room and the boiler room and practically ripped the ship open." There was no time, he said, to launch lifeboats, though many of the survivors, among them Captain Markov, were able to hang on to inflatable rafts deployed from the deck...