Word: blew
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...incident recalled a whole chain of mysterious misfortunes that have befallen Germans linked to Egypt. Last summer the private plane of an Egyptian supplying arms and technicians blew up over northern Germany, killing his wife; in November two airmail parcels addressed to German Rocket Engineer Wolfgang Pilz blew up when opened in his office in Egypt, killing five Egyptians and disfiguring Pilz's German secretary. Then, on a road near the West German town of Lörrach. a would-be assassin fired a pistol shot at a professor engaged in electronics research for Egypt; the bullet missed...
...they shimmied and shook to the 2,650 songs composed for carnival. They drifted in and out of the city's uncounted thousands of parties, drinking, dancing and making friends. What they did, they did with flair and zest-all restraint was tossed to the warm breeze that blew in over Guanabara Bay. At one blowout alone, 110 revellers needed first aid treatment for exhaustion and alcohol...
Radio Moscow's story blew up a storm of cables and telephone calls from Western newsmen panting after all the newty details. And, though U.S. scientists soon pooh-poohed the salamander saga, it made the front pages of most U.S. newspapers, which since Sputnik I have tended to overplay far-out Soviet scientific claims. Then a Russian scientist debunked the story. Professor Gleb Lozino-Lozinsky. head of the space biology laboratory at the Leningrad Institute of Cytology, disclosed that it had been lifted from a children's book, and "has nothing to do with science." Snapped...
Died. Maria Hacker Melchior, 59, petite wife of burly Wagnerian Meistertenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles. A Bavarian silent screen star, Maria Hacker was making a parachute jump for a film when a gust of wind blew her off course and into a garden where she landed directly in front of the startled Melchior. A few months later in May of 1925, she gave up her career to become his devoted Kleinchen (Little...
...made. His putt was an easy four-footer. But his playing partner, Don January, had left a putt teetering precariously on the lip of the cup, and January said that he could see the ball moving. So he waited-for seven interminable minutes. Player was so unnerved that he blew his own 4-ft. putt, the match and a crack at the $5,300. "That putt wasn't going to drop-ever." he groused. "January had no right to wait so long...