Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then one disaster after another hit him: a derrick collapsed, a well blew out and started a quarter-million-dollar fire. McCarthy invaded the Palacios district, sank $700,000 in leases, a million dollars in equipment, drilled five disappointing wells at once and went broke. By the time his mansion was built he was $1,500,000 in debt...
After playing one of its best games of the season, the varsity basketball team blew an eight point lead let night and dropped a 49 to 48 decision to Cornell's Ivy League leader. Over 1500 fans jammed the Blockhouse to watch the Crimson return from a three week exam period layoff. The halftime score...
Suddenly, the cold wind blew music and more motorcycles up Boylston Street. An Army band appeared and forced the firemen into retirement. Then there were jeeps and soldiers and sailors and marines and a half-track and more jeeps and a marine band and four fighter planes that kept flying back and forth...
...took New York by storm one night when she sang a song called My Heart Belongs to Daddy. In 1930 Ethel Merman stood in front of the footlights in Manhattan's Alvin Theater, bellowed Gershwin's I Got Rhythm in a voice like a fire siren, and blew the audience right out of its seats. Before her, a gawky torch singer named Fanny Brice and a twinkle-toed dancer named Marilyn Miller had enchanted a million-odd playgoers of the '20s. Last week, the new star that glittered over Broadway was novel enough and brilliant enough...
...Chase. Shortly before 3 o'clock one morning last week, just seven months and a day after their wedding near Cannes, Rita gave Aly his cue, and Aly, in his own words, "blew up completely." Throwing away the script, he stopped long enough to get into his clothes and help Rita put a mink coat over her pajamas. Then he hustled her out of the four-room suite, through one of the hotel's side exits and into a black Buick. Aly took the wheel himself and roared off to the clinic two miles away...