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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While his integrity is unquestioned, the test for Webster will be how well he can-with limited administrative experience-run an agency with 19,000 employees, a $500 million annual budget and a lot of problems. Dominated by cliques and thoroughly demoralized, the FBI has suffered one severe blow after another to its public image since the death of J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Again, the FBI Gets Its Man | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that Kanawha County schools would goddam well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a pistol under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out $250,000 insurance policy that would send his own son to Cambridge, six months being the required time period before suicide could be considered as a legitimate cause of death by the insurance company. Thomas Scott Bell was named...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Way Down In the Prince Emmanuel's Land | 1/27/1978 | See Source »

...United Federation of Teachers safety manual advises attacked teachers: "Go down with the first blow, and stay down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The ABCs of School Violence | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...their first tour of the U.S. by announcing: "You can all stop staring at us and just relax and have some fun." Sure enough, the Pistols' American debut was a tame, almost respectable happening. Johnny did not throw empty beer bottles at the audience. All he did was blow his nose a lot. Guitarist Steve Jones did not vomit, though in the past he has proved he has the stomach for it. Nor did Bassist Sid Vicious sputter forth more than a few four-letter words. Sid did manage to draw cheers when he removed his shirt and revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Vicious and Rotten sported hairdos that looked as if they had been blow-dried in a wind tunnel or plugged into a preamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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