Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought them. As the President's affluence grew, so did his ego; he started a Third Force political party, requiring followers to take an oath of loyalty "before God" to him. Rojas attacked old-party politicians with rising fury, and when six army trucks loaded with explosives inexplicably blew up last August in Cali. killing 427 and wounding 2,317, he made the intemperate blunder of charging the opposition with sabotage...
Cats in Asia When he blew into Burma and gave out with some hot licks at the University of Rangoon, Jazzman Benny Goodman was greeted after the performance by ex-Prime Minister U Nu, who cried ecstatically : "Your music makes my toes tickle!" It was like that all along Goodman's route through Asia. Benny and his band were scoring the same kind of rocking success in their Far East tour that Dizzy Gillespie had in the Middle East last year and Louis Armstrong had in Africa...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground . . . Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain...
Friday night the varsity suffered a humiliating setback at the hands of Columbia's one-man team, Chet Forte, 80-61, and the following night blew a contest to Pennsylvania in the last minute of play...