Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activity, Shirley's ordeal came to an end. Her parents and school authorities hit upon a compromise that, if it did not put Shirley entirely at her ease, at least saved her health and the school's sense of propriety. Henceforth, as long as the wintry blasts blew, Shirley's costume would consist of slacks topped by a skirt...
...Crimson blew an early 26-18 lead against the Big Red as the diminutive Rolles showed why he leads the Ivy League in scoring. He was faster than anyone covering him in the first half, and the visitors led, 35 to 31, at the intermission...
...newsmen back behind the Iron Curtain after a 33-day junket through the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 31). The seven junketeers managed to needle the U.S. in their reports. They noted and disapproved a "greed for profit." ("A unique means of making a profit is shown by Jack Graham, who blew up his mother and a plane for the insurance.") They rapped U.S. TV for showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers of Pravda, Izvestia and other leading Soviet journals the friendliest, most appreciative view...
...pregame warmup, the gangling Negro looked awkward and ill at ease. He pushed his practice shots toward the baskets as if he knew they would miss; he shambled around the floor like a lost kid. But when the whistle blew for the University of San Francisco v. Loyola of the South basketball game in New Orleans last week, San Francisco's big (6 ft. 10 in., 210 lbs.) Center Bill Russell seemed the All-America ace he was cracked up to be. Before he left the game he scored 20 points. On defense he gave Loyola fits. The Southerners...
...Mongols of Genghis Khan and the Tatars of Tamerlane-only woe has come from across the River Oxus to the high plateaus and valleys where 12 million Afghans ride their horses and camels, herd their flocks, fight their feuds and tend their bazaars. The instinctive memory of it blew like a cooling wind across preparations for Afghanistan's latest invasion from the north, the visit of those part-time nomads, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev...