Word: blown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought her clothes?usually neatly tailored suits and blouses, often from Marks & Spencer?on twice-a-year bulk-buying sprees. Even the Queen sometimes appears slightly wind-blown in public, but Thatcher is invariably coifed and lacquered against the elements. She has already advised the staff at Downing Street that they "will have to understand that I must have an hour in my schedule once a week to have my hair done...
...quality of acting and material easily overcomes these minor difficulties--the sketch or two that is cornier than it is funny, or the rare blown line. The sharp British humor proves as effective in Cambridge as it does in Cambridge...
...final crash, the mob violence unleashed on a cult hero hints at others to be remembered. Maybe the Guru Maharah Ji's rock band will fail. Maybe Werner Erhard will marry Linda Renstadt. And maybe, thinking back on absent friends, "Dad" could have blown it. Jonestown could have gone the other...
...Girl. She is 20, with a smiling, seemingly untroubled face, a saleswoman in a Salisbury shop catering to whites. Five years ago, she was one of 86 students jammed aboard a school bus near the Mozambique border. The bus was blown apart by a mine; 80 died. The girl was hospitalized for two months with multiple fractures and a puncture wound near her heart. She had been back in her boarding school only a week when ZANIA guerrillas entered the dormitories one night as the pupils were undressing for bed. Three hundred children-some naked, others in nightdress-were marched...
Earlier in the contest, the Crimson nine looked like they wouldn't need any late-inning heroics to win it. Starter McOsker had his roundhouse curveball in a groove, and the Jumbos managed just a wind-blown home run off him through the first half of the game...