Word: blown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driving to work one wintry day, Richard Gaskill of Glenview, Ill., suddenly felt a sinking sensation. Result: two blown tires, two bent wheel rims, a lost hubcap and a bill for $191.14. In Boston last week, it took 20 men to extricate Patrolman William Mahoney and his 1,000-lb. horse from a 3 ft.-by-3 ft. crevasse on a pathway in the city's Public Garden. In Manhattan, officials are watching claims briskly mount against the city as a result of damaged roadways...
...high in the Moffat Tunnel, a six-mile-long railroad tunnel beneath the Continental Divide, its western portal across a bridge from the Winter Park lodge. They walked in about 30 yards, sat down in the middle of the tracks with a huge bong, and proceeded to get blown away. Jim, who does not smoke pot, stayed outside in the parking lot, looking at the stars, when from far down the valley he heard the forlorn 'woooooo' of a diesel train horn. He walked across the bridge to the mouth of the tunnel and said, "Ah, you guys, you better...
...months of their birthdays. Wouldn't you be apprehensive if after Sunday your chances of going to you final resting place (Fathers Six) were going to increase three-fold? If this column fails to appear some week in the near future, you will know I haven't just been blown off in the shop, as we say in the news business, which happened last week...
...keeping Nixon's aberrant behavior from destroying the nation: "Nixon said, 'There are ways to do it. Goddamnit, sneak in in the middle of the night...' (A perfect example of classic Nixonian rhetorical overkill.) I said, 'We sure shouldn't take the risk of getting us blown out of the water before the election.' (A perfect example of classic Haldeman effort to defuse another potential bomb)," Haldeman writes. Some other time, maybe...
This weekend's Eastern Seaboard Championships in Providence have a special significance for Harvard's undefeated men's varsity swim team. The Crimson has blown away all of its opponents, been praised by observers and reporters and attracted quite a bit of attention en route to establishing an 8-0 record this season. But it will all be for naught if it can't beat Princeton at the Easterns...