Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test was made on a dilapidated five-story tenement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It was largely occupied by relief families and brought rents of only $42 to $72. Early one morning, the families were moved into an inexpensive nearby hotel. At 10 a.m., the whistle blew and 60 wreckers rushed into the building, began the job of stripping down the interior. Painters raced about slapping on fresh coats of color over the scratched, graffiti-scarred hallways. Laborers hurried to load heaps of rubble into waiting dump trucks. Their progress was relayed by three closed-circuit...
...plastic-coated flooring. As a final touch, pest-control men went through the building to exterminate any left-over rodents and roaches, while roofers closed up the hole through which the core units had been lowered. Seven minutes before the 48-hour target deadline was reached, the whistle blew and the job was done...
Captain Brian Davis, at two, started like a whirlwind, lost his concentration temporarily, and then came on stronger than ever to win, 6-3, 6-8, 6-0. He blew a 4-1 lead in the second...
Eight Sites. The January fire blew NASA's schedule to bits. Before the ac cident, things were going so well that a tentative date and minute for the moon-probe lift-off had been set: February 1, 1968, at 10:35 a.m. Now it looks as if the first manned test flight will just be going up then, a full year late. That does not necessarily mean a year's delay in trying for the moon, however. Since spacecraft, rocket and other production will continue throughout the coming year despite the lack of manned missions, Apollo equipment will...
...seemed to take the strike rather calmly last week, it was because they had the programming problem taped. When they ran out of fresh shows, all they had to do was rerun old ones. Or so it seemed until midweek, when Johnny Carson, incomparable compere of the Tonight show, blew the whistle-and town. He was through for good, it was announced, because the National Broadcasting Co. was playing tapes of his old shows during the AFTRA strike...