Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...double the rate for the preceding ten months, and the Reds are throwing bigger units into battle. In the north at Dakrode, 100 guerrillas assaulted one of the area's strategic hamlets-now renamed "combat hamlets" by the Saigon regime to create a more aggressive image. The attackers blew up barbed-wire defenses and overran the village after 550 montagnard tribesmen defending it fought valiantly until their ammunition ran out, then fled. (They later returned.) Forcing captured tribesmen to carry 30 Communist dead and wounded, the guerrillas faded once again into the bush, leaving behind a trail of bloody...
Guerrilla fighting is something that Founder Samuel Colt probably would have appreciated. Fascinated by gunpowder, he literally blew up his boarding school as a youth and was packed off to sea by his father. Watching the spinning spokes of the helmsman's wheel, he got the idea for the first revolver, financed production of prototypes by touring the West and selling doses of laughing gas to entertainment-starved settlers. The Mexican War made him big, and he expanded by selling to all comers, including Southern secessionists right up until the shooting at Fort Sumter. After his death...
...lavishly costumed Indians stretched across the sacred ground of a Utah mesa. In the darkness it faced east where the red morning sun would rise. As the first rays of the new sun fell upon them, the Indians dusted the sunlight over their bodies with eagle feathers and blew on shrill whistles carved of eagle bone...
...passing yachtsmen put into the placid bay, with its long, empty scythe of golden beach and tile-roofed houses climbing the slopes behind. The fishing was great-leaping sailfish and 400-lb. black marlin. The daytime temperature was in the 70s; in the evening, cooling breezes blew down from the mountains, and the mariachi music lasted far into the night. In the early 1950s a dozen or so Americans went to live in Vallarta. Friends came to visit-and hurried back on their own. Before long, Mexicana Airlines started flying in DC-3s, then DC-6s daily from Mexico City...
Kirkland kicked off again and held Leverett for four downs, recovering the punt on their own 30-yard line. The Bunnies scarcely had time to set their defense before Chuck Stuckey took the ball for Kirkland and scampered 70 yards to make it 12-0 before the whistle blew ending the quarter...