Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Norman Hall, and a supercolossal saga of the sea (1935) starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh. In 1959, figuring that the public was ready to stretch its sea legs again, M-G-M decided to refloat The Bounty. So the wind blew and the fish flew, and by the time MGM's weary crew got back from Tahiti it had used up two directors (Carol Reed and Lewis Milestone), a dozen scriptwriters, one year and $18.5 million...
...anger, Di Salle launched a savage attack against Rhodes, charged that the auditor's office had fraudulently purchased adding machines, accused Rhodes of diverting $54,000 worth of campaign contributions to his personal use. Di Salle's onslaught blew up in his face. Last week Rhodes carried 84 of the state's 88 counties, won even in Cleveland, and was elected by the biggest plurality ever given an Ohio gubernatorial candidate...
...Communism by subterfuge and sabotage. Just last week saboteurs, acting on Castro's orders, touched off explosions in Venezuela that damaged four key power stations in the rich oilfields along Lake Maracaibo (see THE HEMISPHERE). As if this were not enough, the Communists at week's end blew up four Venezuelan pipelines. Such acts, presumably, were the sort that President Kennedy had vowed to answer by invasion. Yet, as of last week, there was no U.S. protest or action...
...Real Business. Andover's founder was Samuel Phillips Jr., a good Calvinist who began to worry about the country's "decay of virtue, public and private" around the time he nearly blew himself up making powder for the Continental Army. To head off decay, the 26-year-old Phillips got his father and uncle to give cash for a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
...oise de Moriere, 29, a French girl working as a stewardess for Allegheny Airlines; in a rare and eerie aircraft mishap; near Hartford, Conn. As Allegheny's short-hop Convair approached Hartford's Bradley Field, a loose cabin door in the rear of the plane suddenly blew open; rapid decompression popped her through the opening and to her death on an open field 1,500 ft. below. "She was gone in a flash," said a passenger. "Not a cry-not a word...