Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
...over and done with, and Her Majesty's subjects began counting the cost of the biggest splurge in their history. Net government spending topped $4,500,000-more than 25 times as much as the U.S. Treasury spent on President Eisenhower's inauguration last January. The public blew even more, withdrawing $25 million from private savings accounts in less than two weeks. Receipts from U.S. tourists brought in a useful $17 million, the equivalent of two weeks of British exports to the U.S., but the loss of coal production (over 1,000,000 tons) offset this gain...
Nineteenth century British liberals agreed more often than not with free-thinking John Thelwall, who blew the froth off his beer and said: "So would I treat all kings." The majority of 20th century Socialists are more apt to raise their pints in ancient and loyal homage. The change has come about because British monarchs, since Victoria, have learned to express and affect what modern men call "the aspirations of the collective subconscious." Historian Walter Bagehot thought a better name was "magic," and held that too much light should not be let in on it. For the heart...
...common knowledge up there, but the answers had to come from the commanding general at headquarters of the Alaskan Command before they could be printed. I knew he wouldn't want to answer them, so I just handed him the wire. When he started to read it, he blew his top. 'They want to know everything,' he roared. But I just kept asking him how to answer it, and he finally gave me a little dope. When the story came out, it had practically all the information he wouldn't give me. TIME sent...
...Fernandez got his sights on a MIG, started firing from 1,200 ft. away. Later he reported matter of factly: "Large pieces started falling off him, and fire broke out in his tailpipe section. He fell over on the left wing, went straight on in and blew up when...