Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move, the Crimson seemed to panic. Harvard still had a 4 to 2 edge going into the last period, but the ten could not get the jump on the ball as it had in the opening periods. The midfields failed to check back, the ride collapsed, and the attack blew several easy goals...
...since the dust storms blew across Kansas in 1936 have winter wheat prospects looked so bad. In some Kansas counties last week, 80% of the 1951 crops had been abandoned because of drought, sub-zero winter temperatures and insects. Across the rest of the U.S. wheat belt, prospects were almost as poor: one expert predicted a 624,970,000-bushel crop, 21% less than the ten-year average, and 18% less than last year. Because of the estimated big carryover of 425 million bushels as of July 1, there will be plenty of wheat this year for bread, breakfast cereals...
Overnight, the storm blew into a hurricane. Those who before had been inclined to overlook Wagner's minor errors, suddenly began blowing them up to mammoth size. Pro-Wagner forces protested that he was being made the scapegoat for the trustees; anti-Wagner forces replied with demands for his head. Soon partisans of both sides were unable to see anything in the case but angry blacks & whites. Old friends passed on the street without a word and the college chaplain despairingly admitted: "I never knew that so much evil could flow." Wagner himself, showing the strain of the campaign...
Both Harry Truman and New Hampshire's Charles Tobey like to bugle about the deplorable state of U.S. moral values. Last week they blew at each other, and the noises sounded a little tinny all around...
...court as his pastor, though no local attorney would take the case for less than $5,000, and won him probation. When the city council seemed about to kill a federal housing scheme in deference to real-estate interests, Pastor George, a realtor's son himself, blew his Presbyterian top at a council session and forced them to back down...