Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sake, hang up - it?s gonna blow! Cell phones are annoying, they cause car accidents, and they may give you brain cancer. Now, it seems, they may be combustible. Almost sheepishly claiming that "prudence is probably the best policy," BP Amoco spokeswoman Linda McCray announced Friday that cell phone use near fuel pumps at its U.S. gas stations will now be verboten. "This is not a ban - this is a precautionary warning," she explained, pointing to the very slim possibility that a malfunctioning cell phone could generate sparks and cause an entire station - not to mention the offending gabber...
...Crimson led much of the way against Princeton, as Clemente showed a shooting touch to complement Hill's heroics. Harvard led 35-29 at the half, and threatened to blow Princeton out of the water before Princeton's freshman center Chris Young got in the act and put Harvard's big men, Ewing and Clemente, in foul trouble...
...after the win, doctors alerted Tomassoni that senior defenseman Ben Storey had contracted mononucleosis. Storey's absence from the lineup dealt a crushing blow to the team's transition game. As the team's lone true rushing defenseman, he was counted on to set up the attack--especially on the power play...
...easy for us to just blow off what has happened and label the perpetrators as bigots and to not think about it again. How many times have we seen the same thing happen to other societal groups? We find someone guilty, absolve ourselves of any responsibility and with some act of punishment the matter is forgotten. That may be the way it is outside of Harvard's walls, but that should not and can not be the way it is here. A letter from the masters or discipline by the Ad Board does not erase the problem of homophobia...
...loss of Hendershot was a big blow to BYU's offensive attack. Unable to push the ball deep into Crimson territory without her, the Cougars instead played a more conservative style, one which the tenacious Crimson midfield exploited throughout the last half of the game...