Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet high in the sky. The dust was so thick that dawn came invisibly; when rain began to fall, tiny mud balls pelted the town of Guymon, Okla. Schools closed, stores shut down, and thousands of farm families listened tensely at their radios as their lands and livelihoods blew away...
...Colorado and New Mexico. In places the underground water table has dropped below the disastrous levels of the 1930s. The drought has left more than 18 million acres "in condition to blow"; since November alone, dust storms have damaged 7,000,000 acres, and this week another heavy duster blew up. In Colorado 26 counties have already been classified disaster areas...
...Miami, Conductor Leopold Stokowski blew a fuse when he heard himself described over the air as being 74 years of age and the son of an Irish mother. Cried Stokowski: "No, no, no, no. That's not true. I was born in 1887 . . . That's a damned lie. My mother was not Irish. This is terrible-where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia...
Bill of Particulars. In Chicago, suing for breach of contract, a food distributor charged that the Flamm Pickle and Packing Co. shipped pickles that blew up jars in warehouse refrigerators, on retail shelves and purchasing agents' desks, and moreover, were "less than perfect in taste, smell and coloring...
...Raiders. The Israeli band, an estimated 200, burst across the border in three columns. One drove swiftly to the diesel pumping station, which supplies a major part of Gaza's water, and blew it up. While the center column attacked Captain Sadek's men, the third slipped along the railway track, fell upon the Egyptian barracks from the rear, and blew its steel-and-concrete buildings into twisted ruins. In the railway station, the marauders found two civilians. They shot them dead...