Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, in the playoff, Hogan, the Mechanical Man, blew a piddling, three-foot putt on the 16th. He never recovered. For the third time, by a margin of one stroke in 90 holes, Sam Snead was Master of the Masters...
...hours last week, the fair wind of compromise blew in the New York Central fight, but then the storm clouds gathered and both sides started thundering. Rumors of a compromise started when Robert R. Young's Texas millionaire friends, Clinton W. Murchison and Sid W. Richardson, made a flying trip to Manhattan to talk to the Central's President William White and some of his directors. Afterward, the Texans flew back home and the word went out that no compromise was possible in the bitter fight...
...canon infuriated Sam by pestering him mercilessly about his future intentions. As Sam had no idea what these should be, his numerous suggestions only made the canon more cantankerous. Cotton-farming in Liberia, bookselling, homeopathic medicine, farming, the army, schoolmastering and painting-all passed in review, until the canon blew up. "Not one sixpence will you receive from me," he wrote, "till you come to your senses...
...ordered a surprise attack against the French garrison at Hanoi. His men blew up the power station, raided a hospital. France declared it would not yield to such violence, and the war was on. "The battle will be long and difficult," said Ho. All this got little attention in Washington, 13,000 air miles away. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had referred to French colonialism's "shocking record"; the U.S. now stipulated that U.S. economic aid to France must not be diverted to its colonial...
...Worcester was reported in fairly good condition at Massachusetts general Hospital, where he is suffering from facial injuries. Stout was hurt Tuesday night when he and some friends coming from the Smoker, tried to set off a home-made firecracker in front of Whitman Hall at Radcliffe. The explosive blew up in Stout's face before he could get out of range...