Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a thundering roar, 467 tons of explosives blew...
Across South Amboy windows burst into hurling, razorlike shards. Plaster crashed down from ceilings, doors blew in, walls bulged. The lights went out. All over town, the clocks stopped at 7:26. River mud, coal and metal fragments hurtled down from the sky. From the docks a huge mushroom cloud rose grey-white and languid...
Farther south the going grew tougher. After flashing across the baking desert flats, the racers began fading like dead comets in the 10,000-ft. mountain passes around Mexico City. Sterling burned out his brakes, Mantz blew all his tires and developed engine trouble...
...Argentine diplomat blew a whistle in a New Delhi nightclub one evening last week. Results: most of the protocol officers in India's foreign office lost their Saturday afternoon holiday, armed policemen were called out to patrol the Imperial Hotel, a bearded Briton was booked for assault and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in the midst of an international incident...
...suffered from the stock-in-trade faults of amateur theater. The flats fell down backstage, and the actors blew their lines. The important last act of the play was omitted for simplicity. What made the Dramashop's "R. U. R." far more interesting than standard stuttering two-night drama was its prologue, written and read by Professor Norbert Wiener...