Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blizzard of rumors swirled around the White House, blew out to Illinois and spread across the country. There had been talk that Harry Truman wanted Fred Vinson, Chief Justice of the U.S., to run. But now Vinson's close friends said he had told the President he wants to stay on the bench. Another Justice, William O. Douglas, had written Truman a note saying he would not be a candidate. But Douglas' liberal friends insisted he is still available...
Light snow blew across the Buffalo Airport one afternoon last week as American Airlines Flight 6780, bound for Newark, taxied out for takeoff. The sky was overcast, ceiling 3,000 ft., visibility two miles...
...catastrophe, a willing and resolute first-aider on the spot can be worth a dozen doctors in a far-away hospital. Last week, as the rumbling political volcano of Egypt blew its top in a roar of fulminant frenzy, first aid was urgently needed. It was firmly applied by a young king whom the West had long regarded as a fatuous playboy...
...Arabs insist that the Israeli army is staging planned forays into Arab territory to terrorize and keep the population off balance. One night early last month a party of Israelis crossed into the Arab village of Beit Jala near Bethlehem and blew up three houses, killing three men, two women and two children. The Arabs said they were Jewish soldiers; Israel conceded that the raiders were Jews but said they were marauders. In the past few nights, similar groups killed five Arabs in & about Jerusalem, through which the border runs...
...high as $50. On the New York Stock Exchange, St. Regis Paper Co., which owns some nearby land, became the heaviest-traded stock, gained more than two points. Gulf and Standard of Indiana, which own leases near by, got ready to sink wells of their own. "The well blew its top," said Alabama's state geologist, Dr. Walter B. Jones, "and all the oil people blew their tops...