Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitcher Del Rossi also tripled, bringing in two runs in the second inning that proved to be more than enough insurance for the victory. His blast was quickly duplicated by Curly Combs, who so startled left-fielded Hugh Levick that he fell on the slippery outfield grass while chasing the ball...
They also have style. In the past year one gang has made frequent headlines by knowledgeable thefts of priceless silver from stately homes, whose doughty walls, it seems, scarcely quiver when burglars blast open the pantry safe. One victim, the Marquess of Bristol, learned recently that $56,000 worth of silver pinched from his mansion last February is now in Russia. Another underworld spectacular that fascinated Britons was carried out last year by eight dapper dastards in bowler hats, and dark suits and carrying tightly furled umbrellas, who marched into London airport, grabbed a $175,000 airline payroll, and beat...
...reach specialized audiences, E.P.E. has started a syndicate that commissions articles such as Margaret Mead's recent blast against college marriages, breaks even at a mere 25 acceptances. Current and choice is an E.P.E. piece by David McCord, the famed poet-fundraiser who recently retired after 37 years at Harvard. Sadly surveying "the average alumnus," McCord asks: "Do you think they really know and value and re-examine the heart of a dozen great books? I strongly doubt it. When they learn that Johnny can neither read nor write, do they ever stop to listen to the sound...
After more than an hour the crowd began to disperse, but on the way back in the Square stopped traffic several times by sitting down in the middle of Garden St. Police broke up this last effort by roaring down the street with their sirens going full blast...
...truce-but there was to be no peace. Saturday night, after a Ku Klux Klan meeting near Birmingham, two dynamite bombs demolished the home of the Rev. A. D. King, brother of Martin King. The minister, his wife and five children raced to safety just before the second blast. Suddenly, the street filled with Negroes. They hurled stones at policemen, slashed car tires. Within the hour two more bombs exploded at the Gaston Motel, headquarters of the demonstrations. And Birmingham went to war. Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives, pummeling policemen. A white...