Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Sands, N. Mex. The results were-at best-debatable. In one shot at a 500-m.p.h. aerial drone target, Nike registered a direct hit. In six other shots the Army said Nike scored shrapnel hits, claimed "kills" in each case. One Nike suffered an electronic brain storm and blew itself up. * Won after Leviero was the recipient of some other leaked documents: the notes of the Wake Island conference between Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur...
...Gaza strip last week on a Moslem holiday tour of army bases and refugee camps, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser heard a radio bulletin: the U.S. had approved a French shipment to Israel of twelve Mystère jet fighters out of its NATO stocks. Egypt's soldier-strongman blew up: the French jets, added to a dozen Mystères and 24 Ouragan jets already shipped, would undo much of the advantage Egypt had gained by buying Soviet-bloc arms...
...freer techniques, they helped to accelerate the experimental pace. Among the early innovators : Painter John Ferren, who produced colored prints on plaster instead of paper; Boris Margo, who developed a new, easy-to-work print surface of sheet cellophane dissolved in acetone; Adja Junkers, who blew woodcuts up to mural-sized proportions with his 14-ft.-long triptych in which the center panel alone used eight blocks and 56 colors. Sculptor Leon ard Baskin's Man of Peace, 1953 (see cut), displayed at Brooklyn's prizewinners' show, achieves monumental proportions in a larger-than-life-size woodcut...
...startling comparison to Saturday's mild game, Monday's match pitted the Crimson against the biggest and most aggressive team it has faced in some time. Again, however, the Bears were the only side to utilize the West Coast's substitution for injuries rule, although as the final whistle blew, Crimson scrum half Charles Levine and flanker John Chalsty were both lying unconscious on the turf. Neither suffered lasting aftereffects...
Saturday, he blew Junta off the court in the first set with his powerful strokes and clutch game. He tighten slightly in the second set, falling behind 5 to 1. In the final set, he came back from a 5-3 deficit, extending Junta to 14 games before finally bowing...