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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this game," coach Bob Scalise said after the contest. "We had some close, tough contests on the trip, and it helps to know that when we come up against a New England opponent, we can just blow...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Laxmen Skewer Tritons, 27-2 | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

...only real evidence of professionalism comes from Cinematographer Mike Chapman (Taxi Driver), who has shot New York's mean streets in his usual lucid way. The cast varies from bad to worse. Heroine Tisa Farrow speaks as if she were a spaced-out extra on furlough from Blow-Up. Jim Brown, the subject of a 1971 Toback book, is on hand only to act out the script's juvenile racial-sexual fantasies. As the hero, a schizo prone to gesturing with his mouth while banging at the keyboard, Keitel gives the first terrible performance of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Thumbs | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Later that same afternoon the Crimson felled Central Connecticut easily, 5-1. This time it was Brown who tossed the complete game, a one-hitter, mesmerizing Central Connecticut with ten strikeouts without giving up an earned run. Halas's two-run homer in the sixth was the big blow, and all that Brown needed...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Tan Foes in Florida | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

What had thus begun as a major error for the terrorists ended-in the macabre mathematics of a suicide mission-as a death-dealing success. What is more, a P.L.O. leader claimed in Lebanon last week, the raid might even turn into a major economic blow against Israel as well. The attack, said an Al-Fatah commander who had helped to plan it, was designed not only to derail the Cairo-Jerusalem peace talks but also to raise havoc with the tourist trade in Israel during the Christian Holy Week and over Easter. Last week, indeed, the P.L.O. issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tragedy of Errors | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...attack submarines unless Washington ponies up an additional $544 million to pay the company for cost overruns. A shutdown would throw 14,000 employees out of work at the company's shipyards in Groton, Conn., and at Quonset Point, R.I., where components are made, and deal a stunning blow to the economies of both towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Cash or No Subs | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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