Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breaking Point. In Wichita, Kans., Policeman Max Price, chasing a speeder, ignored it when his hat blew off, kept going when the muffler fell off, didn't pause when the siren went dead, finally quit when his motorcycle caught fire...
About the House. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Margrutte Hall sued her husband for $6,000 damages, charging that she would have had a "desirably situated" apartment, if he had not 1) removed a door, 2) taken down the chimney so the soot blew back in, 3) made a twelve-foot opening in the basement wall which froze the pipes and deprived her of running water...
...record has the quality of a G-3 report. But when the Russians turn on Guderian in subzero weather, the military prose gives way to simple despair: "Only he who saw the endless expanse of Russian snow during this winter of our misery and felt the icy wind that blew across it, burying in snow every object in its path: who drove for hour after hour through that no-man's-land only at last to find too thin shelter with insufficiently clothed, half-starved men: and who also saw by contrast the well-fed, warmly clad and fresh...
When the news of Bob's victory was flashed to Tulare, the whole town exploded into a celebration that lasted most of the night. Factory whistles blew, auto horns honked, somebody started a parade and led it with a big sign: "Bob Mathias for President." The Tulare Advance-Register rushed out an extra with a 114-point banner headline: MATHIAS WINS OLYMPIC TITLE. "Biggest headline I've ever run," says Editor Tom R. Hennion...
Last of the liberty-loving U.S. celebrities to turn up in Cuernavaca was Musi-comedienne Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman. She blew into town just as the divorce gates were closing. But a local official in Juarez, a quick-divorce city in Chihuahua on the Rio Grande, came to the rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...