Word: blew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over it with his wife and five-year-old daughter. For hours, as the storm howled, they coughed with smoke and fed their flame. But gradually the numbing cold sapped their strength. As they sat snuggled together with their arms around each other, the fire went out. The wind blew fine snow through every crack in the car, heaped it tightly around them. Thus blanketed, they died...
...Rescue. When the blizzard finally blew itself out, Army planes took off to drop supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...
German equivalent of "Cheerio!" Mary bequeathed a fur-piece to one of her former lovers, the Duke of Braganza, and suggested that he hang it over his bed. Then (as Lonyay reconstructs the police and medical evidence) Rudolph blew the top of her head off with his revolver and, after some ten hours, summoned the courage to shoot himself...
...champion liar of the world, for the first time since 1929, was not an American. The Burlington Liars Club awarded its yearly title to L. W. Tupper of Patricia, Alberta. His story: a northwester blew away every one of the 2,000 pestholes an Alberta rancher had dug last summer and carried them clear out of the country. After bouncing over 125 miles of cactus they were useless-so full of holes they wouldn't hold dirt any more...
Baseball's spindly, high-collared Connie Mack, celebrating his 86th birthday in Philadelphia, blew out a single candle, sliced a 50-lb. cake, offered a generous birthday wish: "I really want to give Philadelphia fans a championship team before my brains wear...