Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summoned before the town magistrate for keeping Eva out of school. He too was blazing mad. "Nobody wants his child to go to school more than I do," he said. "She can go to school in hail, rain or snow, but as I dress her. When the east wind blew, the Queen put Princess Anne in slacks. When I put my daughter in slacks, I am prosecuted...
...production and marketing. The Texas commission was set up by" a legislative act in 1891 to regulate railroad rates and transportation; soon it assumed other regulatory powers. But not much attention was paid to the state's oil reserves until 1930, when the huge East Texas oilfield blew in and upset the price structure of world petroleum...
...nearly every building (since replastering is expensive and ineffective, janitors simply scratch deeper, change the word to BOOK and leave it as mute evidence of evil confounded). The city has ceased installing hot-air hand dryers in school washrooms (children quickly began filling their nozzles with ink, which blew over the next user...
Second Game. What started as a southpaw pitching duel between Brooklyn's Preacher Roe and the Yankee's Eddie Lopat blew up in a Yankee victory in the eighth, when Mickey Mantle slammed a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie. The Dodgers outhit the Yanks nine hits to five, but then left ten men stranded on the bases. Score: Yankees, 4; Dodgers...
...first gust blew out of Yugoslavia. Dictator Tito, heady from a long succession of diplomatic successes with the West since he broke with the U.S.S.R., opened a new campaign to best Italy in the postwar struggle for control of the beautiful old port city and the 287-square-mile Free Territory of Trieste which surrounds it. Belgrade's press and radio blossomed with demands for "a serious reconsideration" of Yugoslavia's conditions for a settlement. "Italy," snapped the official newspaper Borba, "is completely disqualified as a partner to whom it is worth making concessions." With fanfare...