Word: blew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terse military prose, the Army describes the almost unbelievable bravery and unselfishness of these men. Corporal Harry R. Harr, of Pennsylvania, blanketed a Japanese hand grenade to save four others in a gun emplacement in the Philippines. First Lieutenant Bernard J. Ray, of New York, blew himself up with an explosive to brea'k a German barbed-wire barricade near Schevenhutte, Germany...
Sound & Fury. For all her garish conduct, Tallulah is capable of great charm, dignity and kindness. During the filming of A Royal Scandal, an older actor blew his lines in one scene 85 times, but Tallulah never made the slightest show of impatience. Her genuine respect for age is linked to her reverence for her parents, whose pictures are always on her dressing-room table. Last year she spent 20 minutes getting a long-distance call through to her gardener so that she could wish him a merry Christmas. Preposterously openhanded with money and gifts, she is also generous with...
...raining when the opening whistle blew. It began to sleet in the second quarter, when Foley threw a 25-yard pass to end Don Daughters for six points. Yale reared back to score, and seemed sure to kick the extra point, but All-East guard Al Kevorkian crashed through to save the half-time...
...earnestly (in half a dozen languages); psychological symbols clash in his fact-crammed presentation. Toward the end of the book, as if drugged with an Easter Islander's point of view, he wonders whether the statues really did fly. Maybe the volcano erupted every now & then and blew them...
When the scarlet-coated ringmaster blew his horn, a Mexican was first to try the tricky H-course. His horse seemed to glide over the first barrier (gate & towers), then the hedge and the cannon (a wooden cannon, 3 ft. 9 in. high). The rider was completely relaxed. The French got off to a humiliating start-their first horse refused to take the first jump-and looked tense and hesitant in the saddle. The Canadians made no bones about the fact that they were trying to copy the fluid riding style of the Mexicans. By week...