Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Lebanon have risen as one man against imperialism," shrilled Nasser's Radio Damascus. Said Radio Moscow: "The Lebanese people have had enough of the American system." In Tripoli Communists and other underground forces won control of the mobs. Saboteurs blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, forcing the company to pump its oil through a branch line in Syria. At the Syrian border, customs guards stopped a suspiciously sagging Chevrolet sedan driven by Louis...
...mood of the airport crowd was set an hour before the Nixons' silver-and-white Air Force DC-6B touched down. A pack of 200 students, skillfully whipped up by older men, hoisted bed sheets painted with the slogans of international Communism, blew rubber Bronx-cheer whistles and shouted, "Get out, Nixon!" When the good-will guests walked smiling down the plane's steps, The Star-Spangled Banner and a 21-gun salute were drowned in an ugly howl of hatred...
...diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines and kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen blew a whistle on the strike. The ailing U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS), which in 1956 withdrew a demand for the right to drop firemen so that the battle could be fought out in Canada, may be expected to follow C.P.R.'s lead when the union contract runs...
...accusing Anderson of deliberate falsehood, but on television's Face the Nation he did point out that although most of the current agitation for stopping nuclear tests was "completely innocent of any political motive," there was also evidence of "a kernel of very intelligent, deliberate propaganda." Clint Anderson blew up. Cried he of Strauss: "He seeks to become the modern apostle of McCarthyism...
Masculine Males. What perhaps warmed U.S. audiences most was the robust, open humor and friendliness, the sunny exuberance that blew through the whole performance. The full-bodied Russian girls were ingenuously sensuous without being sensual. The men-possibly the most masculine male dancers ever to kick a leg in Manhattan-performed their muscle-twisting feats witha pure animal joy of movement rarely seen on the stage. Wrote Critic Harold Clurman: "The qualities these dancers possess are those we [Americans] like to claim as our own when we feel ourselves to be at our best...