Word: blows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last November, two young men flagged him down. They didn't like his asking price. After an exchange of * insults, the three spilled out brawling onto the sidewalk. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 211 lbs., Artyom wasn't worried. But he never saw the knife, never felt the blow and never realized he had been stabbed until the blood had flowed down his shirt sleeve...
Harvard would love to blow Cornell out of the water with an impressive Ivy League victory, but it is mindful of the greater importance of the upcoming Eastern Championships two weeks away...
From then on, the Crimson skated with confidence, matching the bigger Terriers blow for blow, insult for insult. It continued on into the second period, as Harvard managed to hold off a high-powered Terrier attack during and after an unsuccessful BU power-play...
...candidates for mayor. Yet in the streets the frustration and despair that helped trigger last year's violence show little change. "People are anxious about these trials," says Karen Bass, director of a substance-abuse center with headquarters in South Central. "There is sentiment that the lid could blow off again because people don't feel that their concerns are being addressed. No one wants to see the same thing happen again, but it is a real possibility. People don't know what to expect." In a recent poll by CBS News, 2 out of 3 Los Angeles residents...
...PERUCA HYDROELECTRIC DAM, NORTH OF THE Croatian city of Split, may not yet be doomed. But it is in serious trouble. Though the dam is located outside the areas designated for Croatia's rebellious Serbs by last year's peace plan, the Serbs had threatened to blow it up rather than hand it over to their Croatian rivals...