Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorcade, escorted by 100 Indonesian cops and guarded all along its route by scores of Tommy-gunners, swerved to a halt in the guerrilla-infested jungle of central Java when a sedan bearing Vice President Richard Nixon blew a tire. A trifle shaken, Nixon hurriedly joined his wife Patricia in another car, was soon on his way again...
...nice things about Julius ("a charming rascal") on the swan-song show, but had only about eleven seconds to do it. But, said Godfrey firmly, he was "more proud of this boy" than of any of the youngsters he had made into stars. On that sweet note, the storm blew over, leaving La Rosa to cash in on a million dollars' worth of publicity and kind Father Godfrey to mull an ancient maxim: a doting parent generally deserves gratitude, sometimes gets it, but is only courting heartache if he demands...
...nightmare school blew in on the same wind that unroofed the old Habsburg Empire: Kafka grew up in Habsburg Prague; Alban Berg, who wrote the gloomy Wozzeck, was a Viennese; Bela Bartok, whose Bluebeard's Castle almost makes a sympathetic character out of Bluebeard, was a Hungarian; even Luigi Dallapiccola, whose opera, The Prisoner (TIME, May 29, 1950), gives him front rank in the new school, grew up in Austrian Istria...
...Mexico sent messages of congratulation. President Ruiz Cortines embraced the troubador, 53 this week, and said: "Work for Mexico, Agustin." Lara went from Mexico City to Veracruz and then on to Córdoba, traveling along whole blocks of flower-covered streets lined with schoolchildren while factory whistles blew and bells tolled. Last week, overflowing with Mexico's adulation, he pursued his lovelorn triumphal path to Havana...
...Cadillac, plus faucets for Scotch, bourbon, champagne and beer in his home, proudly showed off his newest wrinkle: a heavy, green, living-room rug, which rolls, like a window blind in reverse, up a glass wall at the press of a button. Said Hayes: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. [The rug] catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...