Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knapp testified that in 22 years he had not had a single death. Even the case that blew the roof off his abortion mill was detected while being routinely treated at City Hospital. In his years at the game, Dr. Knapp had never had the slightest trouble with the law or with the medical profession. In fact, he testified, other doctors had referred many cases to him, and the Summit County Medical Society knew about his activities and "had been most kind...
Last August FORTUNE, in a microscopic study of GSA operations, blew a sharp whistle on Mr. Mansure. He had stubbornly kept on the payroll, in important positions, many of the political hacks who had given GSA a bad name under the Truman Administration. What's more, there was evidence that his own personal political friends were scooping up some brow-raising favors...
Solar Cleanup. While the protoplanets were still in existence, about 4.5 billion years ago, the sun became dense and hot enough to support nuclear reactions that made it glow brightly. Its light and heat blew gases away from the nearer protoplanets (proto-earth, proto-Mars, etc.), leaving little more than rocky cores. The more distant protoplanets, which became Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, retained a good deal of their gases, as they do today. They did grow smaller, however, and as their gravitation decreased, their satellites tended to escape like dogs that have slipped their leashes...
...house for Andrew Wade IV, a Negro. He then transferred title to Wade, and a series of threats and cross-burnings ensued. Two months after Wade and his family moved into the home, it was dynamited. An indictment was obtained against a friend of Wade's charging that he blew the house up. This indictment has not been tried, but Braden was tried and convicted of sedition, on charges asserting that he brought the situation about to exploit the segregation issue...
Throughout the state of Virginia, an icy wind blew. Freezing rain fell in the north, and there was snow in the mountains of the southwest. But last week Virginians trooped to the polls in force to chalk up a vote second only to the state record set in the 1952 presidential election. By a majority of two to one, they called for a special convention to amend their constitution and circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in the schools...