Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, as if stimulated by all the excitement she was causing, the queen seemed to rally. But then, one morning, as a chill wind blew, the men began to wail, the women shed their jewelry, and throughout the encampment the gypsies sipped a scalding special brew out of silver-plated cups. They dressed the queen in her best flowered skirt, put shiny new shoes on her feet, ringed her wrists and fingers with gold. Only a few minutes before, having received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Queen Mimi had whispered, "Forgive whoever does wrong," and then closed...
...West Indies Federation, a packed chamber of officials had been waiting for half an hour, sweating in white wool wigs and red and black robes. The princess walked to the speaker's platform and eased into the bliss of an "air-conditioned" chair. While the pipes underneath blew cool air up around her, Margaret read the Queen's congratulations and her own on the new union. Prime Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams responded, and with this the federal legislature, elected March 25, was inaugurated, and the new nation, joining ten island governments, was in business...
Smith gave the visiting Pierians a different reception--"What a sea of girlish faces ... we scraped or blew as we had never scraped or blown in previous time." Radcliffe, however, did not inspire such praise. In fact the Pierians considered play at the Annex more a matter of duty than anything else...
Doubling in brass as police chief, Mayor James A. Grimsley and his five-man force blew the whistle on hundreds of motorists, in less than a year collected $52,422.23 in speeding fines and forfeitures. When the anguished cries of Highway 27's motorists brought on a Dade County grand jury investigation and forced him out of office as police chief, Grimsley had a worthy successor. In twelve months new Chief William C. Geronimo and the Hialeah Gardens whistle-blowers racked...
...most beautiful bridge in the world," Florentines called it, and they never got over their outrage when, in 1944, the retreating Nazis blew up the Ponte Santa Trinita, along with four other bridges across the Arno. (Only the Ponte Vecchio was spared, because it was considered too fragile to be useful for Allied military vehicles.) Designed...