Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When breezy Superintendent Herold C. Hunt first blew into Chicago in 1947, he found himself at the head of just about the sorriest school system in the country. It was riddled with corruption, its buildings were shabby, its textbooks antiquated; 4,000 of its teachers held nothing more than temporary certificates that could be revoked on a politician's whim. Nonteaching jobs were given out as patronage, and the third floor of the administration building was notorious as a distribution center of political plums. Things were so bad that the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools...
Pouting Shot. In Adrian, Mich., Tecumseh High School Basketball Forward Jim Wilson, annoyed because he thought his team had just lost to Hillsdale High, disgustedly heaved the ball the length of the court, made a surprise basket to tie the score as the final whistle blew, went on to win the game with two baskets in the overtime period...
...hemorrhage, as is usual in such cases, came without warning. It could not have mattered whether Stalin was in earnest conference, or playing cards, or asleep. An artery in his brain, no longer able to withstand the pounding of the blood coursing through it under excessive pressure, blew out like a worn bicycle tire. Blood flowed into the brain cells of the surrounding grey matter, clogged them and made them useless. Then the blood began to clot...
...yards into Jordan. They illuminated the quiet village of Falama with Very lights, then pounded it with Browning machine-gun fire and hand grenades for 90 minutes before Jordanian national guardsmen forced them to withdraw, leaving one uniformed Israeli dead. Six nights later, Israeli units hit Falama again. They blew open its protective barbed wire and clobbered it with mortars for almost three hours in one of the biggest attacks since the war's end. Ten Arabs were wounded and the village muktar (headman) killed. In violation of the armistice, the Israelis then began sending warplanes over Jordan, followed...
Saturday night, the Crimson blew a 16-point third-quarter lead, and lost to Army...