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Word: blowouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the sellout crowd of 14,335 who attended last night's hockey game at the Boston Garden, it was nothing more than a B.U. blowout in the Beanpot finals but for a few the 7-1 final score and all the events leading up to it seemed to summarize Harvard's bizarre and best-forgotten hockey season. There were the missed passes, the fleeting moments of offensive pressure, the ambiguous powerplays, and the injuries (Gene Purdy and his battered shoulder never took...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Crawl, Brawl in Beanpot Loss | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

Fresh from Friday night's 73-19 blowout of Holy Cross, the women took a three-hour pilgrimage to Lewiston, Marine, and feated on an inexperienced Bates team, registering a 91-32 romp Saturday night...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Women Cruise In 91-32 Romp | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Taking charge of the middle, Desaulniers kept Page scrambling and turned the vaunted meeting of these undefeated college players into a blowout. Desaulniers breezed to a 15-6, 15-12, 15-5 victory to become the undisputed king of college squash...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Desaulniers Roars But Racquetmen Eaten Alive, 8-1 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Adair, for demonstrating excellence rarely attained by man, in preventing disaster in the North Sea when it was threatened by an oil blowout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Giant Gas Gusher in Louisiana | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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