Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings blew the game apart in the second, counting six times. Five walks and three Tech miscues helped the Crimson run parade...
...kind of phantomlike day in a Midwest spring to inspire adventurers. A warm south wind blew across Lake Erie. On the narrow beach at the end of East 185th Street in Euclid, Ohio, a group of small sea-rovers collected excitedly around a yellow rubber raft. A few hundred feet out in the lake, drifting away in the offshore wind, was a derelict canoe-the legitimate prize of anyone who could salvage her. The rubber raft (Navy surplus), which Dickie Bauer, 14, had bought with money he had earned caddying, was bravely launched from the beach...
Behind the one-hit pitching of Paul Altrocchi, Lowell House's defending champions opened the season strong yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field with an 11 to 2 trouncing of Dunster. At the same time, Leverett blew a 2 to 0 lead to Winthrop, then came from behind to tie the Puritans...
Rickenbacker eventually collected three Duesenbergs, plus a pound of good-luck charms, and a team of drivers, mechanics and pitmen to lead to the racing wars. It was a hard and dangerous life-Rickenbacker was almost beaten to death by flailing rubber when he blew a tire at 90 miles an hour at Galveston, and missed death by inches at St. Paul when his car somersaulted three times...
...when Harry Truman ordered the purge of Representative Roger Slaughter, Binaggio was able to deliver the votes in good oldtime style. There was some unpleasantness when a grand jury indicted 67 Binaggio helpers for vote fraud, but that was taken care of: someone blew open the election board's safe and made off with the incriminating poll books...