Word: blows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Katharine Hepburn turns 90 next month, and there will be the usual round of parties and tell-all books to celebrate the event. One of them, An Affair to Remember by Christopher Andersen, tells the story of how J. Edgar Hoover wanted to blow open the secret affair between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy because of Hepburn's opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Why didn't he? He was talked out of it by a young committee member: Richard Nixon...
...begins the great Web retailing bout: nimble new-media entrepreneurs in this corner, lumbering old-media giants in the other. The Amazon IPO, nervously timed to precede Barnes & Noble's online debut, will help divine which contender Wall Street expects to land the first blow...
...junior center-fielder Brian Ralph led off with a single to left. After Ralph was advanced to second on a sacrifice by sophomore second baseman Todd Harris, sophomore rightfielder Andrew Huling hit a one-out triple to drive in the tying run. Captain Peter Albers then delivered the fatal blow in the form of an RBI single over a drawn-in Black Bear outfield...
...cockpit. I must have pulled the rip cord then--too early. My head grazed the elevator at the tail. The chute had several panels ripped out as it momentarily hung up. I was so lucky. An inch or two difference, and I would have been killed by the blow or dragged down with the plane...
...hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn...