Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outlive it-shooting broke out again last week across Israel's borders. Late one morning Jordan National Guardsmen jumped 30 Israeli troops carrying out a map-reading exercise on the Hebron border and killed six. Next night an Israeli raiding party laid an ambush for probable reinforcements, then blew up a police fort on the Jordan side, killing twelve. Seven more Jordanians died when the Land Rovers in which they were hurrying to the scene drove into the Israeli ambush...
...that way all week. In Philadelphia the Braves woke up for a long evening, took both overtime halves of a doubleheader. The effort exhausted them. They blew the next two to the feeble Phillies...
...farm's racially mixed camp for children. A construction company refused to dredge the creek for swimming when they learned there was to be interracial bathing there; a crop-dusting firm refused to dust the farm's cotton. Then came dynamite-three sticks of it-which blew up the farm's roadside produce stand. After that there was an avalanche of insurance policy cancellations...
...Illinois all summer the hot winds of scandal have blown hard at the Republican state administration. The blast blew Orville E. Hodge (TIME, July 30 et ante) from his perch as Republican state auditor and landed him a 12-to-15-year sentence in the state penitentiary for stealing more than $1,000,000 from the treasury through a warrant (state check) cashing dodge. Democratic leaders joyfully looked forward to using the Hodge case in their campaign to defeat Republican Governor William G. Stratton. Then, suddenly, the wind changed...
Doing the Right Thing. Last week the roof blew off. The Sim-Times disclosed that Paschen had failed to account for a $4,000 contingency fund. Reacting swiftly, Gutknecht subpoenaed Paschen to appear before the grand jury. That brought Dick Daley down with both feet. Said the mayor flatly: "His running would be injurious to the entire ticket. I hope he does the right thing...