Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the present drinking law, measuring .10 is "usually not enough to arrest someone. You'd have to blow a .10 and be seen weaving around," Robbins said...
...They're wild! They kept coming up all the time. They have lavish parties. They really know how to blow off steam." Among the achievements cited in the article as an example of party mentality was a prank in which MIT students used chemicals to weld shut the gates of Harvard Yard...
...bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian who was convicted in London last month of trying to blow up an El Al airliner, allegedly with Syrian help. After the conviction, Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Syria...
...numerous points in between. The common thread in Morris' stories, both early and late, is an odd, intense vision of life after nearly all passion has been spent. Well into their marriages, husbands and wives coexist in uneasy truces, wondering whether their remaining energies will run in tandem or blow each other apart...
...Elmer MacKay told the House of Commons last week that on Oct. 30 microfiche records on nearly every 1985 Canadian taxpayer -- documents so reduced that all of them could fit inside a shoe box -- were stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center. It was, said MacKay, the "most grievous blow to confidentiality in the department's history...