Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptians fell back on hot words and glorious tales. One Cairo paper issued an extra with a story, completely fabricated, of how a cucumber-laden truck, confiscated by the British, blew up when the hungry Tommies started to unload it, killing 250 men. Handbills crying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" appeared in British camps. Irregular units, fired with bloodthirsty language, popped out all over the delta...
...closing minutes of the last period when they moved the ball as far as the Funsters' 10-yard line, but they couldn't make their offense pay off in points. A Kirkland pass to the end zone on the final play was knocked down as the whistle blew...
...shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover his escape. When the assassin touched off the "smoke" bomb, it blew him to pieces...
...noise disturbed his reverie. A distant, Band sort of noise. He went to the window and pushed it up. A rush of sound blew in with a couple of leaves: it was the Band, marching down Boylston St., bound for the Stadium, a crowd of urchins skirmishing about its flanks, a long line of respectful cars following in its wake. It proceeded steadily up the street, over the bridge, and out of sight to the Stadium where the flags were already flying. Vag closed the window. He was feeling better...
What kind of horseplay was this? On the opening night of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, with no conductor in sight, a trumpeter stood up and blew a shattering blast at the audience. A figure in top hat and cape leaped to the podium and began to orate: " 'Tis not for children, not for gods, this play; for understanding people 'tis designed . . ." Finally, Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos appeared and gave the downbeat, and the perplexed audience settled down to the first U.S. performance of Ferruccio Busoni's "theatrical capriccio," Harlequin...