Word: blow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats now have an opportunity to fill a moral void left by President Reagan. Let's hope they don't blow it again...
Brown's unassailable logic: if the U.S. and the Soviet Union don't stop the arms race, they will 1) blow the world up or 2) simply sink below the Rising Sun from the burden of their arsenals. And even as huge forces grow less practical, many other nations are dragged into the arms competition. In 25 years the annual global outlay for arms has gone from $400 billion to $940 billion. The cost now exceeds the entire income of the poorer half of humanity...
Four hours of go-go dancing would make even Tina Turner exhausted. "At times, I wonder if I shouldn't just blow it off and have normal Saturday nights like everyone else, go to Pudding parties or something. But this way I get $40, and that way all I get is a hangover," says Kelly...
...Bulldogs seemed certain to receive a bid to the NCAA tournament again this year before their recent dip. UMD likely will still receive a bid, but the loss of Christensen, with his 219 career points (in 168 games), is a severe blow to the team's chances...
...training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test: he must kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident, possibly the result of many years of Humblepause. But he is worth hearing for his mirth, and for his message...