Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press. Moved by impulses totally alien to the competition, Blick last winter invited 40 needy children from West Berlin to ski in Valais-and picked up the tab. It asked readers for money to buy beds for aged and improvident Swiss. When readers responded generously, other papers blew their Pfiffe. It was not seemly, they said, to admit the existence of poverty...
...awakened out of my reverie by a raucous voice shouting in my ear. "Iced Coke--Hot chocolate!" The electric time clock at the end of the horseshoe flashed to its final reading--00.00. The referee's whistle blew. The contestants withdrew. A score of nil-nil was generally adjudged by the cognoscenti to be as good as could have been hoped...
Smokey Alston smiling? The Dodgers winning? It was only yesterday that the collapsible Dodgers blew a four-game lead in the final week and presented the 1962 National League pennant to the San Francisco Giants. And it seemed only the day before that Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a dinky drive into the leftfield seats at the Polo Grounds to beat the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 pennant. Now the stage was set for another whirlwind finish that would leave the Dodgers flat on their backs, muttering dazedly: "Wait till next year...
...from the Uruguayan border to Rio-into a tinderbox. All it took was some farmers burning off their land for the next planting, cigarettes carelessly flicked away, campfires not quite snuffed out, or a spark from an old coal-burning locomotive. What started as a few scattered blazes soon blew in to hundreds of fires, then thousands...
...Bryan Price: the International 5-0-5 Class world sailing championship; in a stiff breeze off Larchmont, N.Y. Australian Price handled his 16-ft. centerboard Sundowner as though it was wearing a motor, blew U.S. Air Force Lieut. Henry Schefter into second place, and whipped 52 other contestants from eight countries...