Word: blown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dave Singleton opened Harvard's third with a walk and moved to third on Charlie Santos-Buch's wind-blown double which was conveniently misjudged by the MIT centerfielder. Mark Bingham munched on a Smith meatball and drove Singleton home with a single to left for Harvard's first...
...Wind-Blown...
...torture, summary executions and the "disappearance" of at least 500 suspects since the coup. Amnesty charges that many of the desaparecidos were innocent citizens abducted and murdered by soldiers and police in mufti; victims' bodies have turned up "at the bottom of lakes, decomposing in rubbish heaps or blown to pieces in quarries...
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing. They are dressed as Free Polish soldiers on maneuvers as they await Churchill's arrival. Their cover is blown when one of their number reveals the German uniform he is wearing underneath his disguise as he rescues a child from a potentially nasty accident. Much small-arms fire and much suspenseful running about ensue, well staged by the veteran director Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). There is a satisfying surprise ending that serves as a neat moral reckoning as well...
...request in the hope that diplomatic efforts might halt the fighting. After talks with U.S. officials, Nigerian External Affairs Commissioner Joseph Garba pledged that his country would act as go-between. Other black African nations share Nigeria's concern that the fighting could turn into a full-blown...