Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years and I am still stalled in the bus. . . . When I got in the bus every thing was warm and sunny. . . . Almost from the moment I got . . . under way, however, the temperature began falling. I never knew it could get so cold in such a short time. . . . It blew some of the business boys and bankers right through the bus windows. They managed to scramble back again however. I called a conference . . . [and] issued a statement assuring everybody that the storm had passed and not to worry. Well, no sooner did the words leave my mouth than another gale came...
...Congress was on the verge of approving a Nicaraguan canal. Frenchmen who wanted the U. S. to take the Panama site off their hands were in despair. Their promise of a $250,000 contribution to the G. O. P. campaign chest failed to produce results. Then suddenly Momotombo blew off. Wily Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French agent, sent a Nicaraguan postage stamp to each & every member of Congress. Up in the Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over his head, he brandished his stamp. Upon...
...Strangest of all is the quiet that has come. When first I arrived in Managua I believed it to be the noisiest place in the world. . . . One might imagine that workers screamed at the top of their voices, that every automobile blew at least two blasts to every block. . . . But now there is everywhere a quiet as of a tomb. The natives, in the appalling realization of what has happened within two short days, have suddenly been stricken dumb...
...Army engineers was in charge of an expedition surveying the proposed route of the Nicaraguan Inter-Ocean Canal (see p. 18). Arriving in Managua, he took charge of the Marines' fire-fighting detachments. There was no water, no fire apparatus. Dynamite was his only weapon. Marine squads blew up a ring of houses round the blaze, fought the creeping flames with spadefuls of earth and adobe dust...
...Mexico, a 14-year-old boy went swimming in the San Diego River. Up surged a huge crocodile and devoured him. Angry peons gathered on the river's brink, laid a dynamite charge, lured the reptile inshore with a pig, touched off the dynamite, blew to bits pig, boy and crocodile...