Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney was in Tokyo when the North Koreans plunged over the 38th parallel. He flew to the fighting front, was injured when the South Korean army command blew up a bridge over the Han River. He reached safety and cabled this eyewitness account of the first days of South Korea's ordeal...
...with politicians, all wide awake. Leading Candidate John Davis Lodge, of the Boston Lodges,* paused amid the swirling delegates and nibbled on the nail of his index finger. "This," grinned Lodge, "is like trying to pin down a pup tent in a windstorm." A fife, drum and bugle corps blew for Lodge outside the hotel, and delegates found new lyrics to When Johny Comes Marching...
Party bigwigs from Paris, appearing as witnesses, quickly shifted from the case at hand to standard denunciations of the Marshall Plan and the atom bomb (U.S. brand). Prim in a navy pin-striped suit, Raymonde smiled, blew kisses to her husband of seven months, once fell asleep when the trial session dragged on past midnight. She admitted her crime "proudly," said she did it because "I hate...
Says Warner Director Michael Curtiz: "I had no idea about duck hunting, and neither did anybody else in the studio. But we all had to go. The casting director almost blew my head off. They put us in those damned trenches in the rain early in the morning, three, five o'clock, I forget. But that was the order from Zanuck...
...blew off La Paz last week for the first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...