Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accident coming before it happened. Namo turned blindly down an aisle where a woman was trying on a Jane Russell Special brassiere. She was smack in the middle of the act when Namo smacked her, but she countered with a quick left job to his lower ribs. The blow wasn't enough to stop him or knock him off his feet, but it certainly slowed him down. Then she started to shriek something about being molested and Namo started thrashing angrily through the; crowd, knocking over displays and beheading scores of mannequins poised ever so carefully along the aisles...
...challenging freshman guard Donald Fleming (18 points off the bench) led the losing effort for Harvard. But it was a hustling team game--an almost-constant full court press, and a scrappy though poor shooting (.338) offense--that kept the Crimson in a game that could have been a blow...
Civility was dealt a further crippling blow by what the author Tom Wolfe calls "The 'Me' Decade." The social crusades of the '60s (the civil rights movement, the antiwar campaign, the counterculture) broke up a lot of institutional furniture but left little to replace it in the mid-'70s except intense, aggressive self-regard. People went to classes to learn what frequently turned out to be bad manners, the assertiveness training courses that held that you have to be pushy to get what you want. Manners were not the message of Robert Ringer's 1977 bestseller, Looking...
...masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down, get jammed, catch fire, or blow...
...greatest blow comes last, when one suddenly realizes that the voice-over at the end has calmly informed you that this is the first half of Frodo's journeys. In short, sucker, you paid all that money only to have to spend it again to see the sequel...