Word: blew
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...dense mass consisting mostly of neutrons. Some of the neutrons disintegrated, forming protons and electrons. They joined with the protons and one another, forming heavier elements. The original nuclear reactions were complete in a few minutes, and they generated so much energy that the ylem (from Greek, original matter) blew up with cosmic vigor. The pieces flew apart. They are still flying apart today as the myriad galaxies of the expanding universe...
...Tall Men (20th Century-Fox). And the wind blew and the snow flew and before the censor could dig his way into the wilds of Montana and this script, Jane Russell is shacked up in a log cabin with Clark Gable, and there is nothing between them except grandmother's quilt. At night, while Jane lies sighing and stretching like a contented kitten, Clark gnaws happily at a piece of mule meat. "After a long ride," he explains, "I get hungry as a bear." In the morning Jane suggests a clubby breakfast. "I wish I was a peach tree...
Summing up his electromagnetic theory, Menzel said that "the solar system resulted when the sun 'blew a fuse.'" If there are many other planets in the universe, he concluded, "Life, even human or superhuman life, may exist in millions of places in the universe...
Reading the column in the Washington Post and Times Herald, Deputy Attorney General Rogers promptly blew up and called Executive Editor Russell Wiggins. Rogers said the story was not true, demanded a swift retraction. After a meeting with Pearson and Rogers, in which Rogers gave the facts and the proof of them, Wiggins told Rogers that he had a "solution." He would have a reporter check up on the story...
...Italy's Renato Birolli, 49, for his dramatic composition of lightning in a vineyard; to Chilean-born Painter Matta, 43, for a 10-ft.-long canvas filled with bedazzling pyrotechnics that looked like a combined château and gasworks in hell the night the fireworks factory blew up; to Rome's Toti Scialoja, 41, for a low-keyed study in a lyrical cubist style. Not until the honorable mentions did the first U.S. painters appear: little-known Pittsburgh Artist Marjorie Eklind, 31, and this year's leading U.S. Prizewinner John Hultberg, 33 (TIME...