Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace. In the paddies the Vietnamese peasants guided their water buffalo and their plows through the rich, black mud, relying upon Vietnamese flags mounted on sticks to convince the troops they were loyal. In a few harvested paddies there were beds of deep purple flowers. A mine suddenly blew up one of our trucks, but the explosion did not bother a pregnant woman padding impassively along with her bare-bottomed child and her geese. French artillery opened fire, yet a couple of peasants dog-trotted calmly past the guns with a brace of squealing pigs suspended from a pole. They...
...most exciting thing in jazz is when a big band can make it," he says, trying to explain the obsession that returned him so often to the precarious profession. His first to make jazz was called "The Band that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because...
Televiewer Ackerman promptly blew his top at this novel use of Holy Writ. With William A. Chapman, founder of the World Home Bible League, he tore off telegrams to Godfrey and Lipton's: "Shameful, sacrilegious . . . intolerably obnoxious . . . loose disrespect . . . one of the lowest notes in television history...
...authorities for permission to enlarge his church, built in 1429 and far too small for his present congregation. Turned down because of the church's historical value, Father Schwertfirm, 63, carefully removed the church's holy objects, then set off the explosives he had planted and blew up the building. His sentence: two months in jail...
...with brain and eyes unimpaired, Toledano got a good education from tutors, became a voracious reader. In his early years Toledano hoped to become a writer; later he dabbled in sketching. In 1952, when he was 42, he produced a cartoon lampooning Presidential Candidate Eisenhower that the Democrats blew up for a Madison Square Garden rally. An artist friend saw the cartoon and encouraged him to begin drawing seriously each day. Last year an official of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art saw his work, was so impressed that he suggested the first Toledano show...