Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balls of Fire. At once the building blew up in his face. Five other buildings blew up too; one horrible, ear-splitting crash followed another. The sky was lost in smoke, balls of fire whanged in all directions, and the surrounding woodland was magically garnished by endless streamers of colored paper. Frank didn't know what to think. Not until hours later did he learn that the wandering crow had lured him to the plant of the Barnabas Fireworks Co. He fell backwards off the log into the mud, fled across the creek, dropped his rifle, yanked...
...CRIMSON said so--in inch-high headlines--and Leverett blew up. It rioted on Plympton Street; it marched to the Union; lolly-pop-sucking, panty-waist "freshmen" whined why they had chosen Leverett...
...dropped. He blew his nose. Then without saying a word he backed his car the length of the block and departed by way of another street...
...true story blew up in time for the late Thursday editions; Boston papers and the CRIMSON had independently checked with the Los Angeles police and come up with the same surprising results. Brown was indeed in Boston to check on the Dahlia case, although he was also working on the Jersey City extradition, and a Harvard man was involved. The Berkeley Street sources produced again (Brown was steadfastly sticking to his original story) and came up with what eventually turned out to be the first solid facts on Brown's doings. He had questioned a Business School graduate...
...poultry yearly from Gambia." The idea was that cheap native (nonunion) labor could grow feed for the chicks and harvest the eggs, but trouble hatched early. An American appointed to head the project got $14,000 to buy hatching eggs from Rhode Island Reds. Beaverbrook's Daily Express blew its patriotic top, offered to fly 1,000 day-old chicks or good British hatching eggs to Gambia. While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced, the government authorized spending of more scarce dollars for American grain. British poultry farmers protested because their production is curtailed by government...