Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more at a time, ordered them on pain of death to close their eyes and listen to the voice of the Almighty-a strange, whistling noise. Spies from a nearby Roman Catholic mission risked opening their eyes and reported that Lenshina merely stepped behind a tree and blew a whistle...
...Arabs read it and blew up. They insisted that the council must strike the whole paragraph out: such words might commit the four Arab states to more than a military truce with the Israelis. Syria's Delegate Ahmed el Shu-kairy said flatly that to satisfy the Arabs "the establishment of Israel, its membership in the U.N. . . will have to be revoked...
Canada's most violent political storm in two decades blew itself out last week. Three weeks of bitter debate, marked by some of the wildest scenes ever witnessed in the staid Canadian Parliament, ended with the passage of the government's natural-gas pipeline bill (TIME, May 21) just six hours before the deadline for starting work on the project this year...
...while Flaherty stayed out in front, where he had installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
Kienbusch's artistic urgings began early. "When I was a kid and blew out the candles on the birthday cake." he recalls, "I always made the same wish-to be an artist." Achieving that wish turned out to be a long haul that took him to the Art Students' League, abroad for a year's painting in Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things...