Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room was quiet except for the snap of cards, the clack of poker chips and murmuring of the players. At nine tables, the gamblers played stud, low ball, twenty-one or panguingui. The cards were dealt, the winners raked in the pots. Then, at 3:20 p.m., a bugle blew, and all the players got up and went back to their cells. Gambling at Nevada's State Prison in Carson City was closed...
...rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because U.S. spacemen had been forced to postpone their moon shot, scheduled to soar on or near Sputnik I's second anniversary, when the Atlas-Able rocket that was supposed to do the job ignominiously blew up on its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a static test fortnight...
...rival moon shot is off for another month at least. The Atlas ICBM that was especially rigged to boost a 375-Ib. payload around the moon in early October blew up last week at Cape Canaveral during a static test of its engines. It not only destroyed itself but also the second-stage rocket perched on its nose, and wrecked the launching...
...Three. Trouble was, San Francisco's Giants and Milwaukee's Braves were also seeing dollar signs. When the Dodgers blew a 12-2 game on the next-to-last day of the season, canny old (38) Warren Spahn curved the Braves into a first-place tie with a 3-2 victory over the Phils, to win the 267th game of his 15-season major-league career. The Giants' Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones. 33 (TIME, Sept. 21), had pitched so often that his battered right arm swung like a pendulum. But somehow Sam managed...
...last day of the season, the Giants blew it; they lost to the Cardinals, 2-1. But in Chicago, the Dodgers' jug-eared Pitcher Craig was the soul of self-assurance ("I'm not cocky-I'm confident"), threw his soft stuff at the Cubs for four innings, then switched to his fastball to win 7-1. But the Braves stayed alive more because of Phillies' boners than their own skills...