Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich town of Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 28,000) a new type of commercial well blew in last week. It was the most ambitious test to date of pay-in-the-parlor TV. From the Lyric Theater, a double feature (The Pajama Game and Mississippi Gambler) flashed from noon to midnight into 300 living rooms via coaxial cable, thus presumably avoiding FCC supervision...
...tortured." Down in the street, tough French Paratroop Colonel Marcel Bigeard ordered a ceasefire, and then watched as the terrorists lowered a small bundle by string to the street. Two French officers and a noncom walked over to inspect this "token of surrender"; it blew up. wounding all three and narrowly missing Bigeard...
...while terrified Moslems in the area shrieked and scattered to safety, the siege went on. The rebels dropped six more bombs, killed two French soldiers, wounded three others. At last Ramel, already wounded, made a dash for the street and was shot dead. Then with a homemade bomb Mourad blew up himself, Ramel's 20-year-old mistress and most of the house...
...crew, gone down in a diving bell and up on a "cat cracker" (oil refiner), and ridden a camel at the Bronx Zoo. She also showed Homemakers how to make cream puffs and raise chimpanzees. She was the first woman ever to open the New York Stock Exchange ("I blew the whistle and all these men came charging out of their offices and started making money"). When the gadget-ridden Home that Pat Weaver built closed up last month after 3½-years on the air, Arlene was heartbroken ("I sat home and cried all the time...
...Jean-Paul Sartre). A Cornishman and sometime naval officer. Author Golding of course sends his existential hero to sea. Aboard a British destroyer in mid-Atlantic, Christopher Martin had just given the order "Hard a-starboard'' ("the right bloody order," too, he later reflects) when a torpedo blew him clear off the bridge. He survives only to be engaged in a new rehearsal for death as the reluctant Robinson Crusoe of a waterless, naked, uninhabited rock...