Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpeted Parliament halls. Facing the reporters, the Prime Minister held his text in his trembling hands, started to read. After a few words he choked, his eyes filled with tears. He swayed from side to side. An aide quickly grasped his right arm to prevent him from falling. Mossadeq blew his nose, shook his head, and read on unevenly in singsong Persian. As he swayed back & forth, the aide had a hard time keeping him on his feet...
...when he lost the 24th hole with his second consecutive 6 (leaving Coe only 1 down), steady Dick Chapman blew up, seemed on the point of blowing the match. He hurled his cigarette to the ground, petulantly kicked the turf and bawled out his caddy. After the fit of temper his wife took him aside and gave him a stern lecture. "What are you," she demanded, "a man or a mouse...
From the Korean central front TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert cabled: THE aid station, a big, green-canvas structure, was warm with the heat of a single stove and bright with the glare of eight electric bulbs. Its dirt floor was muddy at the entrance, where the wind blew the rain in through the flaps. Outside, an artillery battery fired steadily to the north. The concussion drummed on the ears, of the men inside...
...joined the British army, persuaded the brass to let him organize a unit of Commandos, who dubbed him "Popski" because of his tongue-tangling name. "Popski's Private Army" (its officially approved title) spent most of the war behind Axis lines in Africa and Italy, reconnoitered, freed prisoners, blew up fuel dumps, sometimes diverted whole enemy divisions to counter "major attacks" which turned out to be Popski's lightning jabs...
Charisma, the heroine, wanted to get routinized and find a husband (Beowulf). The puzzled Durkheim kept running from the idealist to the Materialist polo muttering, "Oh, God. I mean, Oh, society." Weber, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Grendel's Mother also rushed about the stage spouting garbled political theories. They blew horns, ate bananas, and emerged from a trap door...