Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens of Florence are justly proud of their city's handsome sky line with its craggy palaces, soaring domes and towers. In 1944, retreating Germans blew up five of Florence's famous bridges and blasted the approaches to the most famous, the Ponte Vecchio. Last week Florentines were up in arms against a new threat to their city's ancient beauty: modern architecture...
...Dallas (pop. 1,685), a woman died after being bitten by a rabid fox. All over a 19-county area, sick and crazy foxes have been seen charging out oi the woods, snapping wildly. In Whitemarsh township, a woman beat one off with a handbag. Near Devon, a boy blew a hawk-call and was charged by three of the beasts. Within the city limits of Philadelphia itself, a rabid fox was killed after it attacked three people...
...fact, snow seemed to get in everyone's eyes. The microphone boom collided several times with the light pan, produced one bang so resounding that the actors looked up and momentarily blew their lines. Even the electricians went haywire: as Viveca composed a farewell letter to her lover, the lights went on, then off, and finally a spotlight eerily picked out the coffin of her illegitimate son. Viveca gamely went on writing her letter...
Samuel H. Post '45, an executive of the New York publishing firm, told the CRIMSON yesterday that Daniel I. Murphy, the state's Commissioner of Public Safety, "blew his top because the state police are roasted in the book, but he's got no right to advise people that its sale may be dangerous...
...Noah caulked his Ark "within and without with pitch" taken from bitumen springs in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. Just a few hundred yards from where Nebuchadnezzar, "full of fury," cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery, oil-fed furnace, Iraq Petroleum (then called Turkish Petroleum) in 1927 blew in its first well with a gush that could not be controlled for three days. Iraq's proven reserve (7.5 billion barrels in the Kirkuk field alone) is within respectable distance of the great Kuwait and Saudi Arabian holdings...