Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the St. Francis to the Cow Palace for his acceptance speech, President Eisenhower stood in the rear of his Lincoln and waved all the way, hardly noticing when his hat blew from his hand (it was recovered by a nimble Secret Service man). Marching down the ramp into the Cow Palace auditorium with Mamie at his side, Ike watched delightedly while delegates trumpeted and paraded for nearly 20 minutes. Down from the roof came hundreds of red, white and blue balloons, some labeled "Ike," some "Dick." Finally, the preliminaries over, President Eisenhower faced the 1956 Republican Convention and began...
...Louis had never heard the sad sound before. Last week, after watching First Baseman Stan ("The Man") Musial go hitless in four times at bat, after watching him make two errors and boot away a game with the Dodgers, 5-3, Busch Field bleacherites finally blew up. They booed the best Cardinal of them...
Only the combination of war and marriage could make Dotty hang up her spikes. While her husband Richard Tyler fought in the Middle East, Dotty Tyler drove trucks and led W.A.A.F.s through physical training. But when a bomb blew up her mother's home and clobbered her collection of prizes in the process, Dotty determined to try a comeback. Even the birth of her first child did not take her mind off the 1948 Olympics. The Tylers were living with Dotty's mother, a former acrobatic dancer, who was only too happy to serve as baby sitter while...
...station in Cali, the palm-shaded heart city of the rich Cauca River Valley. In a district jammed with factories, warehouses and slums, the drivers bedded down for the night with their cargo-more than 30 tons of high explosives. At 1:07 a.m., like 30 blockbusters, the cargo blew up, in a tower of red flame and seething of black smoke...
From the day of grandma's funeral, Novelist (Crow Field) Boylen takes the reader back three years to the day when one of Ned Claypoole's footling experiments blew up and cost Lovey her sight. Red-haired Lovey soon finds that she is a misfit as a martyr. "Being a mean child," she explains, "I hadn't the temperament for it." While mother works as a nurse and father, as Noonday Ned the Oldtime Fiddler, saws away at the local radio station, Lovey is left to the untender mercies of sour old grandma, who tries zealously...