Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York - City's 1977 power blackout, come up with A Good Explanation, a minute-by- minute recounting of how things might have gone wrong. Sample entry: "8:57 p.m. Every person in Queens between the ages of 14 and 36 gets out of the shower and turns on a blow-dryer. This places an enormous strain on the power reserves of the system." The author likes to convey the impression that he is a serious, high-minded fellow who is simply trying to turn the dross of reality into art. As he says of himself in a postscript to What...
...million computerized plant at Wapping, thus allowing him a fresh start to man the presses the way he saw fit. The maneuver not only opens the way for the country's other 13 major dailies and Sunday papers to join the technological revolution but delivers a stinging blow to the British union movement. Observes Andrew Knight, chief executive of the Daily Telegraph: "This is the year of Murdoch...
...rapidly if they were not concerned that the Iranian bridgehead at Fao was a feint to draw off troops from Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Across the nearby border, Iran has amassed 200,000 soldiers. To have the city cut off would be a stunning and perhaps fatal blow to the Baghdad government. As the battle at Fao raged, Iraqi fighters shot down an Iranian plane on a flight from Tehran to Ahvaz. All 46 aboard, including eight members of Iran's parliament, perished...
...things, with having ordered 90 murders, including the 1982 slaying of General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the former prefect of Palermo. Greco, who has been in hiding since 1982, is already under a life sentence for ordering the 1983 murder of a Palermo magistrate. His capture represents yet another sharp blow to the Mafia's image of invincibility...
...PUBLICATION OF Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual in 1967 was meant to serve as a death blow to Black intellectual timidity. Specifically, Cruse called for an end to "pro-Semitism" which he felt was stifling Black thought...