Word: blew
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...then President, he launched a low-comedy invasion of Panama with seven men and a couple of boatfuls of arms. The invasion failed, of course; Dame Margot, who was along for the ride, was expelled from the country, while Tito scampered into the Brazilian embassy until the storm blew over. Since then, he has been linked with various gunrunning efforts and last year, still another caper-alleged whisky smuggling-landed him in a Panama jail for three days until charges were dropped...
Lowest Apogee. U.S. missiles, meanwhile, mainly blew up or fizzled like soggy Roman candles. The first Thor simply fell off its pad. In its second test, it rose ten inches, collapsed. "It must have had the lowest apogee of any missile ever fired," recalls Schriever ruefully. The first Atlas flight in 1957 failed. At one point in 1959, five consecutive Atlas firings were flops...
Linking up with a second force of guerrillas from the nearby Sierra Maestra mountains, the exiles had captured the town and held it for three hours against Castro's militia, during that time declaring it a "free territory of Cuba." They then blew up the Cabo Cruz sugar mill and disappeared. Puerto Pilón, the exiles noted with satisfaction, was only a few miles from the spot where Castro himself originally landed in 1956, and the Sierra Maestra was his sanctuary in the early stages of the revolution...
Predictably, the Times's series blew up a lively political storm. "The papers are all against us," cried an anguished Tory Cabinet minister. Then he sputtered-"The Times is the worst of them all. That damned fellow Haley can't wait until he has put a Labor government in Commons." That damned fellow has no such...
Herb Fitzgibbon, Princeton's top player, is one of the top 20 players in the country, and last fall he blew Harvard's Frank Ripley off the court, 6-0, 6-1. He and Speed Howell form an experienced, powerful first doubles team...