Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaty in committee as a courtesy to party leaders, but said he would oppose the pact in its present form on the Senate floor. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, who is not on the committee but is influential among Senate Republicans, also dealt the pact a heavy blow. He has decided to oppose the treaty because he doubts that the U.S. could adequately verify Soviet compliance with...
...Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Amalrik in the mid-1970s and the trials and imprisonment of Yuri Orlov and Anatoli Shcharansky, among others, in 1978. The movement's sole internationally known survivor is Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, who last week condemned the new arrests as "a calculated blow by the organs of repression...
...third quarter opened with Harvard trying to blow the game apart, scoring on its first possession after the kickoff. The 75-yd., eight-play drive hinged on a 44-yd. St. John-to-Horner sideline streaker that ended when Horner was bumped out of bounds at the Penn three. Two plays later, Hollingsworth took the pitchout in for the score from four yards out; but Cody's wide PAT try left the score...
...intelligentsia. People who wore glasses were killed, on the suspicion that they knew how to read or write. Of the 500 physicians in Cambodia in 1975, only 57 survived the Khmer Rouge purge. People suspected of lagging on the job were punished by death, rendered by a hatchet blow on the back of the neck, or, as many refugees have reported, by evisceration. Groups of children who were found guilty of being the offspring of "undesirables" were reportedly chained together, then buried alive in bomb craters under dirt that was shoved on top of them by bulldozers. Between...
...people who turned out for a party honoring Louise Nevelson got a twofer. It was the famed sculptress's 80th birthday, and she was also being saluted by New York's Municipal Art Society as a champion of urban art. Nevelson steadfastly refused to blow out the 80 candles, saying, "Let them burn and burn and burn." They...