Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Koreans had found that they could hold the crest if they kept the Chinese off the neighboring knobs; and the enemy was holding by his fingernails only to three knobs, known as the Three Sisters. The Koreans tunneled under the Three Sisters, laid massive charges of TNT, and blew the knobs and most of the Chinese on them to smithereens. After that, White Horse seemed secure...
Last week these irreconcilable vows came into conflict, and it was General Naguib who held the field when the smoke of battle blew away. Defeated Nahas summoned the Wafd Executive Council to his ornate home, announced that he was quitting, screamed at his followers to get out of the way, and then stumbled upstairs to political oblivion, crying bitterly...
...King Agrippa presided over the rites in 42 A.D. This year, since none of the Israeli government leaders is strictly Orthodox, the head of the state was represented by Jerusalem's chief cantor, who read the Torah from the top of a truck. As he finished, old men blew on the double ram's-horn. Pilgrims wearing rich prayer shawls cried out in jubilation, dancing and clapping their hands to the jangling of tambourines...
...field, meanwhile, when a player went down, a rival would usually rush to help him up. Then the two would warmly shake hands before re-entering the game. Even the British referee got in on the love feast. When he blew his whistle for a time out, players would scamper to him, rain compliments on him for his eminent fairness, surpassing judgment and keen eyesight...
...Haverhill thousands packed the square, but they were mostly school children. Above, on a bridge, was the railroad station, with microphones and a loud-speaker. A train whistle blew and the crowd cheered; it was the President's train. The five HLU'ers pushed their way to the front of the crowd and hoisted their placards. There were six signs, so they asked a small boy to hold one. The signs read: "Harvard's for Harry," "Because if Ike's Elected--," "Joe McCarthy for Attorney General," "Fred Hartley for Secretary of Labor," "Chiang Kai-Shek for Secretary of State," "John...