Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crack Princeton's stranglehold on lightweight rowing for the past three seasons, Harvard's narrow loss in the first race of the spring to the first race of the spring to the normally docile Quakers was disappointing for the Crimson oarsmen--not to mention surprising--but hardly a critical blow...
...Ouadi-Doum, the Libyans left behind a trove of Soviet-made equipment, including combat aircraft, tanks and rocket launchers. The defeat, stated a Chadian military communique, enabled government forces a few days later to seize Faya-Largeau, Gaddafi's last major stronghold in Chad. Even before that final blow, some 3,000 Libyans, fighting despondency and a violent sandstorm, had begun retreating north...
...Colonel Muammar Gaddafi one of the most ignominious defeats of his 18-year rule. State-run Chadian radio hailed the capture of the 12,500-ft. airstrip at Ouadi-Doum as the "beginning of the end of Gaddafi's expansionist dreams." The debacle not only delivered a near fatal blow to Libya's occupation of northern Chad but also damaged Gaddafi's standing at home, where Libyans are already grumbling about a sickly economy that is suffering from the slump in oil prices...
...game total-goals format of these NCAA quarterfinals produced a Kafkaesque contest. The Crimson's six-goal blow-out of Bowling Green the previous night had left the Falcons in a very, very deep hole. From that hole came such utterances...
...Evelle (lots of gender-bent names in this picture) lecture Ed on the importance of breast-feeding as a retardant to criminal behavior. Having kidnaped Nathan Jr. from the original kidnapers, Evelle wanders into a store and, just prior to robbing the place, buys balloons for the child. "These blow up into funny shapes?" he asks. "Not unless round is funny," the clerk replies...