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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here is just a sampling of what he asks the viewer to believe: that the anchor man of a mythical network's evening news (Peter Finch), about to be fired for low ratings, would inform his audience that in a week he will blow his brains out on-camera; that network executives would allow him back on the air in order to make a somewhat more dignified exit and then, when he crosses them up and announces that his trouble is that he has "run out of bullshit," they would not instantly cut him off the air; that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Upper Depths | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...Major Blow...

Author: By Joseph H. Yeager, | Title: False Data Charge Stirs I.Q.-Heredity Controversy | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...next morning martial law, which had been lifted with the promise of elections, was re-imposed. And thousands of students and young workers were arrested, dealing a tremendous blow to student anti-junta organizations. Within a week of the revolt, Papadopolous himself was overthrown by the most extreme, uncompromising faction of the fascist clique, headed by Brigadier General Dimitri Ioannides. The last and most repressive phase of the dictatorship began. The prisons and concentration camps were again full...

Author: By Mietiades A. and Electra K., S | Title: There is no freedom with manacles: the Greek struggle continues | 11/23/1976 | See Source »

...marathon opens at 1:00 p.m. with the annual Detroit Lions "Watch us play over our heads on national television and blow darts the rest of the season" Thanksgiving game. This year's battle is against the Buffalo Bills and if the game is as boring as the two teams involved, wait till the second quarter to get the nutmeg...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Thanksgridding Guide | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

...future by violent means: that message was made abundantly clear by the cease-fire imposed by the Saudi Arabians on the Syrians and Palestinians in Lebanon last month and at the summits in Riyadh and Cairo. Saudi Arabia and Egypt simply would not allow Syria to deliver the final blow to the Palestinians...

Author: By Dani Kaufmann, | Title: The Palestinian Issue and an Israeli Proposal: An Hallucination? | 11/16/1976 | See Source »

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