Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decisive blow was delivered by Steve Schorr, who, seized by the question "What is to be done?" answered Lenin's call by galloping 95 yards into freedom...
Sullivan scored a 31-yard over-the-shoulder touchdown in the fourth quarter to blow the game wide open. The touchdown cast Crimson visions of perfection off into the snowbanks that lined the field. It transformed Eli joy into ecstasy...
...fans of the Baltimore Orioles, for those or us who have lived and died with the Birds since the first time we saw Brooks Robinson glove a hard shot at third base, last Thursday's free-agent draft came as a mortal blow. Expected, yes, but deadly nevertheless...
...really tight election, any last-minute gaffe by one candidate, any below-the-belt blow by another could prove decisive. When Ford ads portraying three citizens from Georgia criticizing Carter were attacked as unfair and negative, his managers stopped running them. Ford tried to capitalize on Carter's ill-advised statement that American troops should never be used to check any possible invasion of Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union in a post-Tito period. Carter had made the statement before, but none of the newsmen covering him had made a big issue of it until keen-witted Columnist Joseph Kraft...
...rendering of a speech by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian leader of a slave rebellion, and later won the Walt Whitman International Media Competition for selections from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He often compares himself to a jazz musician, stripping down everything to the soul. "I used to blow a blues harp and beat a tambourine, but now my body is my only instrument," he says. Blue often works barefoot, so that, as he puts it, "my toes can sing...