Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclusion of Sakharov's statement may surprise those who saw Chernobyl as a crippling if not fatal blow to the future of nuclear power. He argues strongly for the further peaceful development of nuclear energy, but suggests that reactors be buried underground to prevent any repetition of last year's Soviet nuclear disaster...
...cold, gray day in Philadelphia, and the furnace in the drafty old Commodore Barry Club can push the temperature only to about 50 degrees F, but the musicians just button their overcoats tighter, blow on their hands and take out their instruments. After all, it isn't every day that so many of their kind -- 20, at least -- gather in one place. In a musical subculture so arcane that few even know it exists, this counts as a world-class event: the first East Coast Convention of Cumann na bPiobairi, the national Irish Pipers' Club -- and what is a little...
...Timothy Britton, a piper, pipemaker and transcendental meditator, comes over to have a look. "The reed's cracked," he says after a quick inspection. "Here, try some Krazy Glue." More trouble from across the room: a cigar-chewing piper, improbably named Roy Rogers Jr., has a mysterious air leak. "Blow some smoke into the bag and see where it comes out," advises Britton...
...Whenever there's an opportunity to blow off steam, they blow off steam," says first-year student Anthony J. DiNovi...
...would be easy to blow the child leash problem out of proportion. The press could manufacture a "child leash crisis;" editorial writers and dining hall philosophers could compare it to the drug epidemic and the breakup of the nuclear family; and the country could go into another orgy of "What kind of a society are we?" introspections. That would be overreacting to another 1980s abomination...