Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blow For Blow, Saturday...
...little faith! Before you could say en garde the Crimson sabers struck. First Larry Tu zorroed a win over his opponent, then Mike Bierer out-engineered his Engineer sword partner, and finally Chitman delivered his second death blow of the night to complete the saber sweep and put Harvard on top for the first time of the evening...
...with a badge number (the FBI does not issue badges to informers). As a returned defector, however, he quite possibly was queried periodically by FBI agents; they may have asked him about pro-Castro activities in New Orleans and the Russian-speaking community in Dallas. His note threatening to blow up Dallas FBI offices-which was destroyed by FBI officials-indicated that any relationship was hostile. Even if he was an informer for either the CIA or FBI, that would be no indication that either agency was a part of any plot. Only in the unlikely event that congressional investigations...
...measure's pricing provisions are another blow for the oil industry, which earlier this year was stripped by Congress of its depletion allowance. Oil company profits for the first nine months of this year ran, on an average, 31% below last year's spectacular highs. In the quarter ended Sept. 30, Exxon's profits were down 31.2% from a year earlier, Gulfs 36%, Texaco's 38% and Mobil's 17%. The slide in earnings, plus the new price rollback, is certain to dampen oilmen's enthusiasm for much needed exploration. U.S. production of crude...
Little Bayonets. The book was also a painful blow to Aurelia Plath. Like all the other characters in The Bell Jar, the narrow-minded, hard-working mother is ferociously cartooned. Shortly before trying to kill herself, the heroine watches her sleeping, "the pin curls on her head glittering like a row of little bayonets...