Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts House handed Speaker George Keverian '53 a personal defeat yesterday and struck a potentially fatal blow to a deficit-reducing tax package by voting against a 50 percent increase in the capital gains...
...definitely a major blow. Nothing we do tonight will fill the gap," Clapprood said...
...sanctifying homosexuality and further threatening the traditional family. John R. Quinn, the Archbishop of San Francisco, was in the forefront of the fight against the proposal on that city's ballot last week to provide certain domestic-partnershi p rights to municipal workers. He called the idea a "serious blow to our society's historic commitment to supporting marriage and family life...
...jacket. This is a holy war. The weather won't stand in our way. In fact, the aforementioned Adams House sorceress plans to call for a hurricane. Rejoice in the storm! The 150 m.p.h. winds--ordered to blow in the proper direction, of course--will turn the measliest Harvard screen pass into a potential 30-yard gain. We won't even need to tackle Yale's running backs, as the wind will push the Elis back into their own end zone for a Harvard safety...
...Ortega had been known to blow advantages in the past. Remember his spectacularly mistimed trip to Moscow only days after Congress voted to cut off aid to the contras in 1985? Last week he did it again. Ortega announced the cancellation of a 19-month-old cease-fire with the rebels and thereby raised the possibility that the elections, scheduled for February, might be scuttled. With that one action he managed to put Nicaragua back on the U.S. agenda, outrage his Central American neighbors and renew the prospect of war in his worn-out nation...