Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late." Perret, who makes the Paris office of TIME-LIFE International his home operating base, does most of his traveling now in a small French Simca and has had his share of minor crises. He once had to hitchhike for miles on a snowy German highway after two tires blew out. Another time, he spent the night cuddling three hot-water bottles in a Lancashire barn when there was no room in the local inn. He has lost his share of shirts to hotel laundries, suffered his moments of confusion in dealing with six different currencies, but wherever he goes...
Neutral Switzerland's Neue Zurcher Zeitung, looking on, decided that "the estrangement presently spreading" might do good if it blew away some of "the tensions accumulated in Europe as a result of a one-sided dependence on-American aid," and if "the exaggerated American expectations regarding the adoption by its partners of its own political concepts will make way for a more realistic view ... All this can have a good effect if the West, at the same time, escapes the dangers involved in any weakening of its inner cohesion in the face of ... imperialist Communism...
...drought-stricken Texas last week, a dust storm blew up over the Government's $150-million emergency relief program. In his weekly Rails Banner, Editor Ernest Joiner declared: "Fully half of the aid given here has gone into the hands of wealthy men. This writer, for one, is damned tired of his hard-earned money going into the pockets of wealthy...
...last week, as the Knesset debated the bill, 10,000 Orthodox Jews from the Mea Shearim and from all over Israel converged on Shaarei Hessed Square in the biggest anti-government demonstration in Israel's troubled history. Red-eyed from weeping, they swayed and wailed, prayed, and blew upon the ram's horn, a signal of national distress. Despite their prayers, the conscription bill passed the first Knesset reading...
...passage from Stoddard's book. The Meaning of Intelligence: "Manmade concepts such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions." Unitarian Stoddard protested that, taken as a whole, his book urged a "return to religion." Gradually, the storm blew over, but it was never forgotten...