Search Details

Word: blew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Detroit gave Ike a parade down Woodward Avenue to Cadillac Square. Paper showered down and cheers echoed loudly among the tall buildings. A man leaned out of a window and shouted: "Make him fight, Mamie, make him fight!" Mamie, carrying a red-and-white silk parasol, blew kisses at the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Ike's Second Week | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

After a while, Amy had something more to lie about. "I blew up joints for more'n a year before I ever fixed. Fixed is jolting, you know-taking a shot of H in the main line. H is heroin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blowing Up a Joint | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...great train wreck. Two old belly-chimneyed, smugde puffing rail riders came at each other on a narrow guage track, and with the help of some well-placed blasting powder, blew their red and gold gothic hot boxes over half an acre of mountain scenery. It was a magnificent thing to behold. It would have been even more satisfying had it come at the beginning of the picture, with the whole cast aboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Denver and Rio Grande | 6/7/1952 | See Source »

...mounted the mark, and just before the start, Hutter glanced over at Kiphuth, with determination in his eyes. The whistle blew and the two men hit the water together. Stroke for stroke they matched each other up and down the pool...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

...past 25 years, hundreds of hortatory novels have appeared, preaching everything from Communism to yoga; with story generally sacrificed to sentiments, few of them survived the intellectual storms that blew them up. Last week brought two more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soapboxers | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Previous | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | Next