Word: blew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four friends, a kitchen stove and a five-gallon kettle. He gave the business his mother's maiden name, Curtiss. It sputtered at the start for lack of capital; in 1920 it was caught with high-priced inventories amidst falling sugar prices; and in 1929 the crash nearly blew it apart-but each time Schnering kept it stuck together...
...London house, Henry Bishop peered at the red-faced stranger in the yard next door. The man was staring straight up at the bathroom where Bishop's wife was making splashing sounds in the wash basin; suddenly he burst into a clumsy dance of delight and blew a kiss to the window...
...Conditions. Such was the demoralized outfit that Assistant Director Hoover took over at 29, when the erupting scandals of Teapot Dome finally blew Daugherty out of office. Hoover told the new Attorney General, Harlan Fiske Stone, that he would take the job on two conditions: no politics and no outside interference. Said Stone: "Those, young man, are the only conditions under which I would give...
...typhoon (named Gloria by playful U.S. weathermen) hit Okinawa July 23. For eight hours it lashed the big island, registering a velocity of 135 m.p.h. before the wind gauge blew down. The toll: 38 dead, 252 injured, 42,502 buildings, including 75% of all Air Force installations, destroyed or "50% demolished." It was the worst Okinawa typhoon since Louise in October...
...handout said), bounced into a big, baroque Casino chamber, joined croupiers, cameramen and curiosity-seekers around the first crap table in the Casino's 71 years of existence. Blonde, white-suited Lillian Moore-"one of the 100 most beautiful girls in the world"-took the dice, shook them, blew on them, threw the inaugural roll...