Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daly would be nowhere without his blow dryer...
...Lockheed, and cost $1.25 million. Parked by its side is a van full of monitoring equipment and computers that start the rotor turning when the wind hits 12 m.p.h. and shut it off, to prevent it from wearing out, at 40 m.p.h. Since winds averaging nearly 15 m.p.h. blow through Clayton almost every day, the turbine more often than not will be generating 200 kw. of electricity?enough to power 60 homes ?or some 15% of the town's needs...
...difficult to prescribe exact behavior for a covert undertaking. Strict rules of conduct could be damaging in certain situations. Suppose terrorists manage to obtain and hide an atomic weapon, then threaten to blow up a city?a not inconceivable happening in the decades ahead...
Britain. Its Secret Intelligence Service is tops at analytical work and political judgments. Good on the Middle East, less impressive on Africa. Master Spy Kim Philby's exposure as a KGB agent in 1963 was a blow, but SIS has overcome that...
...Canadian border, a blizzard blasted 31 in. of snow across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. With winds clocked at up to 100 m.p.h. (hurricane force is 75 m.p.h.), the wind-chill factor hitting -50° and record-low barometric readings, the National Weather Service classified the big blow as an "extratropical cyclone." That scarcely did justice to this great white whale of a storm. An NWS spokesman in Detroit called the blizzard "one of the worst, if not the worst," in Michigan's history. Kentucky Governor Julian Carroll said it was "the most devastating snow accumulation...