Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massacre was a severe blow to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' hopes that a cease-fire signed with the Muslim rebels last December might continue, for the insurgents' brazen self-confidence suggests that they have been receiving fresh weapons from abroad. Observers fear a full-scale resumption of the government's anti-insurgency campaign that at its peak, cost Philippine forces 75 dead and 300 wounded weekly...
...tuned up and ready to blow, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington waited on the stage of the austere concert hall at the John F. Kennedy Center. A cheerful cherub of a man walked swiftly to the podium and smiled at the audience. His face was a pale Russian winter's landscape, his blue eyes shone mischievously. He turned toward his colleagues and, with a sturdy slash of his baton, launched into a high-speed, raucous overture that seemed to roil the Potomac. It was strictly show-biz razzmatazz, a pastiche stitched together by Leonard Bernstein from his 1976 musical...
...gloating shout of "Gin!" Weller takes a murderous swipe at her with his cane. When she ducks, he tries to demolish the card table in his fury. Perhaps Mike Nichols, whose unobtrusive direction is a model of purity throughout, ought to have the cane shatter on the final blow to indicate the end of this pitiable pair's relationship and of their lives. - T.E. Kalem
After Sutton retired the first three Yankees who faced him, the Dodgers grabbed a 1-0 lead on Dave Lopes's triple to right-center and Bill Russell's single to left. The Dodgers added five more runs in the third frame, the big blow being Yeager's three-run homer to left...
Last fall, the Ad Board decided to readmit Stephens, a decision the senior says the sympathetic efforts of Marshall Pihl, senior tutor of Quincy House, were instrumental in bringing about. Stephens now views his June 1972 actions as "a mistake which I learned from--it was a blow to anyone who thought anything about...