Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to wait out the projects." giggled he. "Another year won't make me an old man." No sooner did he thus spike rumors of romance than one of his other projects panned out. An Oklahoma oil well, half-owned by Liberace and his ever-present brother George, blew itself in, began flowing at a heartening 100 barrels an hour...
...radioactive rain from Siberia caused little resentment in Japan. The disastrous typhoon of Sept. 26 blew it out of the country and off the front pages of the newspapers. But Japanese scientists know now that they are under fire from two directions...
...whom "Vice is Now Become Alamode," they are mistaken. Their efforts will have no more permanent effect than President Dunsters when, according to Professor Morison, he emptied his horn of gunpowder in the middle of the Yard, laid a train, touched it off with a live coal, and "blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
...frightened. Once an eel fastened onto her leg, but she kicked it off. By morning, Marilyn was weary, and badly in need of a mental lift. Then she heard that the great Florence Chadwick had given up, sickened by oil slicks and rough water. Marilyn plowed on. Winds blew her off course, but she fought back...
Painters and glassblowers had worked side by side at the furnaces. Brittle creations sometimes exploded on cooling, requiring tedious remakes. Old Master Aldo Bon blew steadily for three hours on Picasso's Burlesco. Exhausted in the end, he gasped: "What a sweat! Even for Picasso I would not do another like this...