Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time it seemed final. Ailing, scheming, archconservative with all but cash-and wildly profligate with that -Saud has repeatedly landed himself and his country so deeply in trouble that only Crown Prince Feisal, as his able longtime Premier, could bail him out. Then, when the immediate difficulty blew over, Saud sought to resume absolute power and cancel Feisal's cautious reforms. Just three months ago, Saud attempted a quick military grab (TIME, Jan. 3), which fizzled when he could not even trust the royal guard to back...
This year George C. Wallace, the little man whom Kennedy blew out of the doorway at Alabama University last June, told the voters of Wisconsin that "this so-called civil rights bill is not in the interest of anybody"--and 250,000 of them voted for him in Tuesday's primary...
...chose to clamp down a lid on the official investigation of Bobby Baker rather than let it run its full course. Conceivably, there could be nothing more to it than was already known. But in putting on a lid, the Democrats were running a risk; if that lid ever blew off, the pent-up odor could be overpowering...
Saturday night Columbia downed the Crimson, 69 to 59, as Harvard blew a 10-point second half advantage. Good performances from McClug, Inman, Keith Sedlacek and Barry Williams had propelled Harvard to a 40-20 lead, but the Lions scored 14 of the next 17 points and then pulled away with ease. The Crimson scored only 22 points during the agonizing second half...
...Bird Johnson and a group of visiting college stu dents in the White House East Room when the President burst in, rushed up to the platform, grasped the actor's hand and said: "I always wanted to meet Mark Twain." Almost speech less, Holbrook forgot several subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among the Prestigious. Then came the annual presidential prayer breakfast, attended by some 1,000 men at the Mayflower Hotel. Evangelist Billy Gra ham preached, Revival Singer George Beverly Shea let out resoundingly with My Saviour God to Thee, and Johnson called...