Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoyed bake sales in high school, Susan Ward (Victoria Allan), a high falutin' preppie from Milton; and Maggie Cochran (Lisa Beach), an aggressive, sexy wise-cracker. Maggie tells Stanley after he shrinks in tension from her sexual advances, "How do you whistle? Just put your lips together and blow...
SORRY, READERS, but that contest idea was a real low blow. I realize that those of you at Wellesley and other places don't have the same color transcripts in the first place, and in the second place, it was only part of a contest, and there was no prize. Here is a possible prize: a moped...
...came and went, there were no incidents more serious than flight delays of up to 20 minutes caused by Lufthansa's preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news agencies in Paris, announced that "we will not hijack any more aircraft," but repeated the threat to "blow up" airplanes when "capitalist profiteers and lackeys" are aboard. "We will also hit them," the letter said, "in their homes, cafés, clubs, movies, at gala occasions and in their financial fortresses...
What is missing as local ownership disappears, says Congressman Udall, is publishers who were "an independent spirit in the community, who had the power and the disposition to blow the whistle on the people in that community." A crusty editor willing to risk all for what he believes best for his town is an honored American institution. Such paragons still exist among local papers, agrees John C. Quinn, Gannett editorial director. But Quinn knows others where "the editorial position is discovered after the publisher comes back from lunch," presumably after consulting the local fat cats...
Harold's Club is offering $100 for the best idea to rid the sign permanently of pigeons. Among the proposals received so far: 1) Make the roost untenable with axle grease or spikes. 2) Blow the birds off with blasts of compressed air. 3) Talk them into moving elsewhere. (This one came from a man who claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead...