Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even seemed to enjoy the chillingly dramatic part he was playing. The attempts on his life went on. Another shotgun blast was fired at him from the woods, but his car's armor saved him. Last March, the engine of his airplane blew up as he started...
...know the treacherous sea route around the Danish peninsula pronounced the scheme "suicidal," but the Frenchmen thought they knew better. They hawsered four tugs to Long Henry, chugged away with him into the Kattegat Straits between Denmark and Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long steel neck shot high above the waves, as if to get a last look at the shore; then, in a whirlpool of foam, he capsized and plunged to the bottom, taking with him one French sailor...
...slump as he toured from Cairo to the Riviera, playing in minor European tournaments. He was over-tennised, nervous and jumpy. Jaroslav Drobny, 32, beat him six out of seven times. In the recent French championships, against Drobny, Savitt was leading 4-2 in the deciding set when he blew up over a petty error and lost the match...
...could not stop. She burst out: "Why did she hate me so? What did I do to her that she should hate me?" The analyst said softly: "She didn't hate you." Lucy insisted: "Yes, she did . . . And I hated her!" She finally calmed down, blew her nose, apologized for her tears. Suddenly she exclaimed: "Gosh! I can breathe...
Farmer Cochel, who deeded his farm to the church in 1947, manages to make it show a token profit (last year, $2,500). His deed provides that he will manage Roanridge as long as he wants to. "Every other time any church tried to run a farm, it blew up on them because they didn't know how to do it," he says. "I didn't want any bishops telling me how to farm...