Word: blew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down to the business of doing justice to some of the 2,000 bottles of beer, 200 quarts of. champagne carefully selected from among the many which producers had fought for the privilege of presenting to them. But not for lone. In spite of zealous storm detouring, a gale blew up that rent the port stabilizer, buffeted the ship. A reduction of speed became necessary while repairs were being made...
...North Sea tossed and heaved. The tides rose ominously. Waves slapped and pounded the stone dykes at Zeebrugge and Nieuport. An Eastern wind blew foam from the sea onto the land...
...match in an international series; after the second match the team that had scored the greatest total number of goals would be declared the winner. The U. S. women won the first match by a score of 5-2. Many spectators started to watch them but a cold wind blew most of them away; only a handful remained at the end to watch Dorothy Hunt-Hogan, the Canadian No. 1, topple off her pony and clamber back on again to finish the match...
Also there was a parade of butchers, millers, coopers and brewers. Standard bearers held aloft their ancient guild emblems and heralds, twinkling in gilded costumes, blew trumpets...
...consider extremely successful expedition. Unprecedented leakage gasoline forced early return." Gobi Desert heat blew up several cases of gasoline...