Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went grimly about the business of burning or blowing up barracks, buildings and other installations which the Chinese, whether they arrived in the morning or next week, might find useful. Similar demolitions went on at the same time in other parts of the U.S. perimeter. Withdrawing 3rd Division infantrymen blew their rail and motor bridges behind them. Near Hungnam X Corps engineers blew up another railroad bridge along with almost 400 freight cars and 30 locomotives. They said they definitely weren't going to blow up the new 1950 Japanese cars. At least they had had no orders...
Dull explosions rocked the city as Allied commanders blew up ammunition and supply dumps. There was no panic or looting, but some underground terrorists were already active. They distributed leaflets urging the underground to sabotage the Allies in every possible...
...broad, lazy, middle-register style as a scrawny kid, sitting on the curb outside Chicago's Pekin Cafe, listening chin-in-hand to the stream of notes pouring from the golden horns of Joe ("King") Oliver and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. He got his first job at 14, blew his head off from 8:30 at night to 4:30 in the morning for $25 a week...
...power line. Immediately, great balls of fire bounced up & down on the roof with thunderous explosions, the plumbing threw off sparks, and pipes melted around the kitchen sink. Mrs. Kolesiak, peeling potatoes, found her spectacles flecked with molten metal, the television set burned out and one of the knobs blew off, the telephone went dead, a glove lying in the yard burst into flames, and the house was scorched in three places. Kolesiak was only slightly burned, but the family dog ran away and refused to return home...
Damage to some New England colleges was great. Vermont state police estimated that the cost of the storm to Middlebury College would exceed $100,000. Winds blew the roof off the University of Vermont's gym and a Bowdoin College dormitory...