Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a premature March squall, Tallulah Bankhead blew into Washington, D.C., and set up a noisier commotion than both Houses of Congress combined. Invited by Alabama's Democratic Representative Frank ("Everything's made for love") Boykin to testify on the capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill...
Hacked from Rock. The 10,000 regulars of Lieut. General Liu Lien-yi's 46th Division took it harder. Glumly, soldiers loaded guns, mortars, electric cables, fresh boxes of ammunition still labeled: "From U.S.A. for Mutual Defense." Behind them, explosions thundered as demolition teams blew up pillboxes and gun emplacements laboriously hacked out of the rock...
...pencil on my ticket-envelope but we had no record of it, sir, and would I please step over with the standbys. At Knoxville the next day I reconfirmed to Washington when I landed and two days later the boys pulled the same gag on me. This time I blew up and bad temper got me on the plane. Blowing up. by everyone, on every occasion, may be the answer-so far as there is one. Business management's first solution to every problem, frequently its only one, is to increase the budget for advertising and public relations...
...Quarter Horse mares nearly stumped him before the whistle blew that time was nearly up. He noted, unofficially, that Mare No. 1 was held by a blonde lady ("wide-brimmed hat, pony tail, fur coat, slacks and moccasins"), that the mare herself wasn't too bad either ("a sorrel, pretty well muscled, true in her movement"). Mare No. 2 looked as if she were going to bite or kick; No. 3 was "thick through the stifle," and No. 4 was "a deep chestnut, stylish, powerfully muscled." As Eddie passed along, he wrote his decision...
...Malskat's forged work. Lübeck winced as Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside the church. Only scattered patches of the original paint remained, said Malskat, and "even that turned to dust when I blew on it." Malskat decided to fill in the blank walls with pictures of historical figures, schoolmates and local laborers, modeled figures of the Virgin based on photographs of his sister and former German Movie Queen Hansi Knoteck...