Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind blew up soon after Bombard left the Arakaka, and the rest of the voyage was, comparatively speaking, a breeze. For two weeks more he sailed alone. Then he met a small Dutch steamer, spent half an hour aboard. Early one morning last week, 63 days out of the Canaries, he spotted a light flashing ahead. Daylight revealed a brown fishing beach between two weathered, grey cliffs. Bombard had reached Stroud's Bay in the British West Indian island of Barbados. Within a few hours, he sat down to a hearty landsman's meal of grapefruit, bacon & eggs...
Poverty hung heavily over the neighborhood in the Alliance's early days. Washing flapped in the breeze that blew between firetrap tenements. Men scrabbled for thin wages in the city's sweatshops. But at the Alliance, anything seemed possible. Even an art school flourished in its crowded classrooms. In 1915 Abbo Ostrowsky, an energetic young artist from Odessa, began the art instruction he continues today...
...Jordan Marsh's windows were scenes of local churches, seen through a revolving glass, ersatz snow falling, like through a Bendix window. A Salvation Army band moved up and played carols. The trumpeter looked like Boston's own Major Barbara and the crowd listened. Two young Oliver Twists blew horns and the leader pumped a trombone, trying vainly to look as little like a bank clerk as possible. By the curb, a small aging woman held out her tambourine. An S.A. cap sat on her stringy grey curls; her eyes all pity, piety and purity. Thin shoulders were covered...
After three early baskets by Boston College, the Crimson never again fell behind. The score was tied once with two minutes to go after the Yardlings blew a six point lead, but they staged a dramatic, last minute shooting spree to pull ahead again. Newly elected Captain Warren Kantrowitz of Natick and Hollis Hall sank two foul shots, and George Doyle's two field goals gave the Crimson the margin of victory...
...Boston, a wily weather forecaster at Logan Airport blew his nose last night and said that the skiing snows of northern New England were here to stay...