Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained, he could not hold news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full and accurate evidence than judgments on a book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider...
...children glanced out the schoolhouse window, saw the plane and screamed, "Air raid!" The pupils dropped to the floor as the plane grazed the schoolhouse roof, showered glass on the children, spewed flaming gasoline on an older school building next door, and blew up with a roar that sent burning wreckage raining through a ten-block area of flimsy wood-and-paper houses...
Still other industrial groups blew hot and cold in the first half. Among elec tricals, General Electric rose only 1⅞to 80¾ but resurgent Westinghouse climbed 21⅜ to 94½. Among motors, an investor could hardly go wrong (Chrysler up 17⅛, Ford up 24¼)-unless he selected solid General Motors, up only...
...Good, Happy Style. Jonah used to blow his horn open, and no man in the business blew it better. But Jonah's clarion trumpet call sounded too loud over the tinkle of cocktail conversation, and for most of his career he was never able to make it into the plush jazz caves where the money lies. Then in 1955 he had an offer to fill in at The Embers, reluctantly agreed to play with a mute, and quickly evolved the "good, happy style" that has brought the crowds running to him ever since...
...Middlebrook and Dr. Maurice Cohn put more than 1,000 guinea pigs into chambers rigged so that the ventilators blew in BCG-Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, a strain of weakened microbes used in vaccination against tuberculosis (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957). Later exposed to virulent TB germs, these animals resisted disease and lived out their normal life span. Those in an untreated comparison group sickened and died. Follow-up tests by Dr. Sol Roy Rosenthal at the University of Illinois showed that BCG, wafted in 10 million times its own volume of air, "took" in 27 of 30 children...