Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winged over Madrid, plunked seven bombs on the U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Building, largest structure in the city. In retaliation for Generalissimo Franco's bombing of Madrid on Christmas Day, Red operatives secretly installed a series of bombs in a roadbed near Talavera de la Reina, blew up a 23-car train of White troops, killing hundreds...
...press conference, but it seemed to me more like a vaudeville item. The only things missing were a set of bones and a banjo. Mr. President called everybody by his first name and it was all very jolly. When one of the boys asked a riddle, Mr. President blew a smoke ring at him from his cigaret and ditched the answer...
...septuagenarian's silky grey beard, spread over his hospital blanket, jerked each time he gasped the oxygen which an electric motor blew upon his face. Another midnight passed, and attendants of Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital left Aaron Handler, dying of heart disease, alone for a while. Then a dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen...
...beginning of the third quarter, had become 14-10-7 on Struck's touchdown and conversion. Now, with less than three minutes to play, it was 14-to-13, on a pass from Oakes to Ford. Struck dropped back to kick. The whistle blew, the ball was snapped and the crowd of 60,000 in the Yale Bowl held its breath...
Hats went off, heads were bowed as Brother Baucom boomed a prayer. Master of Hounds John Aiken Rowan raised a Texas steer horn to his lips, blew long & loud. At this signal the hounds were loosed and, amid a great uproar of babbling dogs, roaring engines and shouting men, women & children, the whole assembly moved off into the brush. Thus began :he 1936 field trials of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association, biggest "wolf hunt" in U. S. history...