Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold Snorage. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Beatrice Dunn was granted a divorce after she testified that her husband made her sleep in an unheated attic for ten years "because I snored," wouldn't allow her to leave the attic door open at night because "too much cold air blew down...
...Israelis pulled slowly back along their three invasion roads, they tore up or blew up the shoreline railway tracks, chopped down telegraph poles, and dynamited even railworkers' huts. The most awesome destruction they wrought on the roads themselves. At a point ten miles east of the canal, the blacktop central road abruptly changed into a jumble of shredded rock. Giant-pronged Israeli machines similar to the "rooters" with which retreating Germans and Italians wrecked roads and railroads in World War II had ripped the pavement to a depth of 12 to 18 in. Last week gangs of Egyptian workmen...
...troops under joint command with Nasser's, and pushed deals with the Soviet bloc that by last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade of troops into Jordan. Syria's inept little army cannot make good use of Russia's modern arms; the arms were obviously being stockpiled for eventual...
...sponsored by an organization of Catholic women telephone workers called "Our Lady of the Bell," and averages 600 calls a day. The state of Washington has at least 17 telephone prayer services; when Seattle's University Presbyterian Church installed one last June, calls jammed lines for five hours, blew fuses, and threw the Kenwood exchange out of commission until the telephone company put in supplementary "disaster" service. In San Francisco the Christian Evangelical Church claims some 100,000 calls each month. And in booming Los Angeles, the Y.M.C.A.'s Dial-for-Inspiration handles an average 10,000 calls...
...seems to be writing for visitors from Mars, as in Bad Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with a shade of some ersatz material," etc.). Author Stafford is best where her heart is, in fictitious Adams. Colo., a town she loves and hates...