Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future of the country-Sadat was one of 52 boys picked. So were Nasser and six other Egyptians who later banded together to overthrow King Farouk. During World War II, Sadat, still passionately anti-British, collaborated with the Germans. On one occasion he urged his fellow officers to blow up the British embassy; the cooler Nasser restrained...
Many economists fear the legislation could be a staggering blow to the economy, which is already burdened with an unemployment rate of 6.9% and inflation of 6.5%, and is expected to face some trouble in 1979. Said Thomas Dernburg, senior economist for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee: "The vote was an amazing mental flipflop. No one would consider raising the income tax with the economy in this state...
...latest blow has been the extraordinary success of the Walt Disney World theme park and entertainment center at Orlando, 240 miles to the north. The 27,400-acre complex, which opened in 1971, sports three Disney hotels, with an occupancy rate of about 97%, three golf courses and assorted attractions that make it, according to its owners, the No. 1 tourist destination in the world. More than 13 million visitors came in 1976, and attendance in this year's fourth quarter is up 7.4% over a year ago. Moreover, the Disney complex, which grossed almost $255 million last year...
...snowy trek from Providence to Boston, and it was Brown which suffered from player absenteeism, most noticeably Irish import Colm Cronin. Cronin had won the Irish National championships in the triple jump just last week with a mark of more than 53 feet, a distance which threatened to blow the Crimson jumpers out of the pits...
...Bruce Shepherd a blow dryer...