Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michelangelo Antonioni, film director (Blow-Up), on watching his movies on television: "I feel like a father toward my old films. You bring children into the world, then they grow up and go off on their own. From time to time you get together, but it isn't always a pleasure to see them again...
...most consumers, rising interest rates are an ill wind: they inflate the cost of borrowing to buy or build. But, to bend a proverb, the rise may soon blow some good to one group: savers...
...almost the same way, the Harvard hockey team has wrestled with otherwise easy opponents this year too many times. No major decision, not even a moral victory. Just out and out upset losses to teams like Penn and Princeton, who in previous years the Crimson would blow away before laughing...
...year ago last week, Mafioso Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, 71, emerged from a telephone booth near his home in San Diego, and was shot four times in the head and neck. His death was a severe blow to the FBI, since Bomp served both as consigliere (counselor) of a Mafia family in Los Angeles and as the FBI's highest-placed informant in the crime brotherhood. To track down his killers, the bureau stepped up its investigation into the murders of at least 20 people, including six FBI informants and potential witnesses, in the past three years. All had been...
...CONFIDENCE IN BARRE. The tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...