Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...38th parallel on the east coast, 250 British marines went ashore from a naval task force led by the U.S. heavy cruiser St. Paul. While the ships shielded them with a curtain of fire, the commandos mined 100 yards of the Communists' main east coast rail line, blew a trough 16 ft. deep in the roadbed. After seven hours ashore, the British got back on their ship without a casualty...
...played than how I scored"), followed with a 72 on the next 18. When it came to the payoff final round, Hogan was one stroke off the pace set by Sam Snead, 1949 winner, and Skee Reigel, 1947 Amateur champion. The pressure was too much for Snead. He blew to a sky-high 80 (taking an eight on the par-four eleventh hole...
...Brooklyn district attorney reopened the ten-year-old case of Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles; there was even talk of exhuming Reles' corpse. His mysterious plunge from a hotel window one day in 1941, while under police guard, blew up a perfect rap against Murder Inc.'s Executioner Albert Anastasia. William O'Dwyer was Brooklyn district attorney at the time. Anastasia went free, and still is. Last week immigration authorities arrested one of Albert's five brothers (they all jumped ship to enter the U.S.) on illegal entry charges...
With his mouth full of gasoline for an aerial spray effect, Flamo misjudged and blew himself to the hospital. Mannix applied for the job and got it. Step Right Up! is his amusing if sketchy story of what happened to him in the next few seasons with various carnival shows...
...cynics' surprise that he really has a voice. The ring and power of his high notes almost makes up for his lack of real musical taste. Called back by cheer after cheer, Mario gave them as an encore his current bestselling tune, Be My Love. That really blew a fuse; at any rate, the lights went out. The police provided an extra squad to get Mario out of the Mosque and back to his hotel. As he was leaving, a young woman bumped him and promptly fainted. Mario caught her and handed...