Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front door. "The Maas home just seemed to settle right into its basement. Then there were the awful flames and the smoke." Two men working nearby dragged the housekeeper out into the yard, her clothes on fire. More explosions rocked the area. A house down the street blew up, then another, and another. People scrambled into the street dodging flying timber and glass. The blasts spread, rolled on like giant popcorn, too fast to count. A boy staggered out of a house, his arm in shreds; an old man quietly went on mowing his lawn near two shattered houses...
...winds. Tourists were huddled indoors behind boarded-up windows. Natives, expecting the worst, had battened down all hatches. Then "Easy" swerved sharply toward the east, its center missing Bermuda by 80 miles. At the same time, the force of its winds diminished. Bermuda got only a mild gale that blew down a few banana trees...
...night after the bombing of the Red bank, Parisians in the neighborhood were startled from their beds by another explosion which battered the first floor of Worms and Co., a hundred-year-old banking house, and blew out display windows across the street at the Printemps department store. "Someone has made a mistake," fretted a director of the Worms bank. "We have no political affiliations and certainly none with the Communist Party." Reinforced police patrols prowled Paris' financial district, watching for further bomb-throwers...
Amiable Negotiator Stokes, whose nickname is "Slap & Tickle Dick," was not tickled. He snapped: "I am not a great believer in bargaining." Still, Mediator Harriman persevered. He saw the young Shah, who is reasonable but ineffectual. The Shah himself tried to conciliate Mossadeq, who finally blew up, said: "Do you want me to resign?" There it was; the Shah had to back down. The fact was that the oil dispute, which stretched back 20 years, had become for Iranians a cause beyond common sense. They desperately needed British technicians, and they could not possibly get along without British marketing...
...that the dirt of the driveway had been disturbed. Neither his lights nor his Dalmatians nor his Chihuahuas nor his guinea hens nor his peacocks warned him of what was about to happen. Just as he reached for the letters in the box, an explosive planted in his driveway blew Herbert Noble to bits...