Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clifford Shinn and his friends tried to take off to notify Mexican authorities. Loose sand bogged them down. Baker and Johnson got out. Shinn took off alone, then landed to try taking his friends again. A tire blew out. Shinn's plane was now useless. Without food or water, the men decided to walk the 60-mile ground route over rocky sands beneath the terrible sun to San Felipe, the hamlet Bill Falls apparently never knew existed...
...Bridge, someone called "Look!" It was a few seconds before 8:15 a.m. Shigeko turned. Then: "A blinding flash, and I fell to the ground. I covered my eyes with my hands. As I struggled to get to my feet, something [the shock wave] threw me down harder and blew me several yards. I blacked out. I don't know for how long. When I came to, it was no longer bright sunshine but dark like dusk, gradually changing to smoky red. My kimono from the waist up was in shreds...
...researchers-all of whom were so busy that some interviews were literally conducted on the run. Best break came when NBC's hyperbolic President Pat Weaver invited Correspondent Don Connery to ride home with him to Sands Point, L.I. On the way, Weaver's rented Cadillac blew a tire; in trying to change it, the chauffeur broke his jack. Weaver telephoned for another rented Cadillac, which took them to Sands Point, where Weaver, talking volubly and incessantly, showed Connery his telescope (for stargazing), his bongo board (for exercise), and his bound volumes of TIME, which he bought from...
Take. In Stevensville, Ont., police searched for the safecrackers who got away with 5? after they blasted a Canadian National Railway safe with such force that they blew the estimated $36 it contained all over the station floor, caused $2,000 damage to the office...
During the debate, the audience heard Mr. Fast, who describes himself as "a person of the left," speak in favor of coexistence. As he glanced towards Scars, Fast assaulted the "protagonists of war with Russia." Scars blew his nose loudly. Fast's voice rose as he outlined the history of Russia's peaceful foreign policy. "Only the truth is good," he cried in attacking American rearmament. Then he sat down...