Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them...
...Pomona College last winter, Swimming Coach Charles Platt sensed that "the campus was like a teapot about to blow its lid," because plans for a black studies center were getting nowhere. Platt united 15 professors and students from all six colleges of the Claremont group in an organization called F.A.S.T. (Faculty and Students Together), which goaded the rest of the faculty into approving plans for the center; F.A.S.T. also worked on individual trustees, who last week voted their approval of the center as well. Now members of Platt's group are thinking of broadening their organization and renaming...
...state of its own, organized on the basis of homogeneous neighborhoods that would run their own schools, garbage collection, police and fire departments. The proposal, argued Mailer, should appeal equally to radicals and to conservatives fed up with overweening government control. "I am asking that the Left and Right blow, each separately, one-half of their minds." The campaign slogan? "No more bull...
...bath of fire," moaned one man) and other problems (weight gain, anxiety). They also hear testimonials from ex-smokers. In addition, to make his message more visual and urgent, Frederickson projects film of cancer-riddled lungs or of an emphysema patient who does not have enough breath to blow out a match. From time to time, a Laugh-In-style "crawl" message crosses the bottom of the TV screen with a variety of warnings, such as "41% of heavy smokers die before...
...Crimson dropped their third game in five league starts last Tuesday when they lost to Brown in the ninth inning, 8-7. Coach Loyal Park continually had predicted that any team with only two losses could take the championship but the third blow was fatal...