Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President was coming, League Commandant Clay Nixon, of Seattle, had ordered: "No wisecracks will be tolerated . . . You will behave like marines." The convention's official bugler, 70-year-old Herbert Baldwin, tried to blow Hail to the Chief, but his upper dentures slipped out, so he just blew Attention. ("It was all I could do under the circumstances...
...Challenge You." Said Oscar Chapman to poker-faced Andy Schoeppel: "I challenge you and dare you to shed the cloak of immunity and sit here under oath . . . and repeat the speech." Andy Schoeppel calmly blew a smoke screen with his pipe, sat behind it and ducked the challenge...
...resume answers. You have held me to $25 [cable tolls], so will omit details of any action or actions that Hemingway has participated in. His bad knee was acquired by an enemy Minenwerfer explosion which blew off the right knee...
...despite its brass bosses, is actually a civilian agency which operates as a collector and clearing house of information about the intentions of other nations. It shuns publicity, gets little public attention until something blows up. When something blew up in Korea, U.S. Senators demanded to know why CIA had not given adequate warning. Admiral Hillenkoetter said that CIA had in fact known about heavy North Korean concentrations and had passed the information on. He insisted that CIA's job was merely to report to the departments concerned-State, Defense, etc.-on how things looked...
...Frank Gibney, our Tokyo bureau chief, who was injured when a bridge blew up under him during the evacuation of Seoul, missed being ambushed by about five minutes last week. He had gone out with an intelligence and reconnaissance patrol on Friday, but had to turn back late in the afternoon to return to the regimental command post and prepare to fly to Tokyo to file his copy. A few minutes after he had left, the patrol was ambushed by North Korean infantry. Gibney's cable added that his new eyeglasses had arrived on schedule. His only pair...