Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snub to Thurmond during the 1949 inaugural parade. According to Vaughan, just as Thurmond's car approached the presidential reviewing stand, "Tallulah Bankhead came out with a terrific 'Boo!'" Said Vaughan: "She was behind the dignified Supreme Court with their silk hats, and she just about blew their hats off ... That was why [Truman] turned his head when Strom was coming past." Asked for comment last week, Miss Bankhead drawled: "Who's Harry Vaughan...
...segregation issue. Example: with a newsman within earshot, a farmer sidled up to Byrd and asked: "What're you going to do about the shines?" Said Curly: "Keep 'em out!" When the nearby reporter said he was going to include the exchange in his story, Byrd blew up, flatly denied having made the remark...
...northbound, through central Pennsylvania. In and near Wheeling, W. Va., a city of 58,000 built partly on an island in the Ohio, 2,400 families had to leave their homes while others moved furniture to upper floors and waited it out. Inevitably, in upstate New York, the hurricane blew down a theater marquee with signs reading, GONE WITH THE WIND. Felling trees, collapsing roofs and downing wires, the winds brought death to 82 persons and wrecked more than half a billion dollars' worth of crops and property in the U.S. President Eisenhower, holding an emergency meeting...
Home in Manhattan, the Davis Cup selection committee tried to forget that he, too, is a thin-skinned performer. (Only last month at Forest Hills, a loud American crowd bothered him so much that he blew right out of the national championships.) Solemnly, the committee announced that, for all their faults, Tony and Vic are the best around. With Inter collegiate Champion Ham Richardson and Captain Billy Talbert, they will be sent on one more trip to Australia in one more effort to bring home the Davis...
Griselda, the witch who lives in the Memorial Hall bell tower, stretched her arms after a long sleep and decided it was time for a trial spin on her broomstick to get in shape for Halloween. Skirting Lowell House, a chance breeze blew her into an open window. As she recovered her balance, a distraught young man leaped to his feet, hastily brushing la little pile of dirt under the rug with his hand...