Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad station, shoved lustily at a car or two and managed to toot a train whistle before they moved on. Others made loud threats to spring Hammond and Wright, who had been locked up at Borough Hall. Toward midnight, the storm center of the riot swirled through town, blew over every garbage can in sight, then settled on Westminster Choir College a mile away...
...sweetness. "I was hoping we should find ourselves in a friendly atmosphere tonight," he cooed with a wicked twinkle. "Nonsense!" shouted the dragons of Labor, but eventually his good humor spread to them. "Good night!" yelled the Laborites as the Prime Minister waddled out. Churchill turned and blew them a kiss...
...votes in the first general election since 1948. Grandpa Stoltz, 75, stumped out to the car that would take his household to the polls at Nigel, a dusty gold-mining town 25 miles southeast of Johannesburg; as he reached the car there was a roar, and his house blew to smithereens. Grandma Elizabeth Stoltz and a 32-year-old gold miner named Lukas van der Merwe lay dead in the wreckage; the Stoltzes' son Pieter had a leg blown...
Hour after hour, the sharks circled the reef. At night the wind blew steadily out of the north, kicking up a chilling spray; during the day, the sun beat down unmercifully on the surviving pilgrims and the two sailors. They had little bundles of water-soaked food which they ate. There was no fresh water. Some pilgrims drank salt water. Four child pilgrims lost their hold on the tower and slipped into the sea. The sharks glided in to claim them...
...southbound Milwaukee Railroad freight carrying ammunition rolled into Lewis, Ind. (pop. 416) one night last week, jumped the track and blew up with a force felt for 35 miles. For four hours, 105-and 155-mm. howitzer shells lobbed into Lewis. When the siege ended, nine houses, four barns and two business buildings were destroyed, 54 of the remaining 95 houses were damaged. Only two residents, both over 80, were hurt seriously enough to be hospitalized; no one was killed. When the blast came, almost everyone in Lewis was out of range, at an Eastern Star meeting in Masonic Hall...