Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "they don't dare attack Ike direct so they are attacking me. This is a stab in the back." Now if there is any way to infuriate a politician, it is to accuse him of playing politics-and when he heard of Humphrey's remark, Symington blew up. "You Don't Dare!" When the subcommittee met next morning, Chairman Symington was still flushed with anger...
...next Byrd. William III, committed sins far graver, in the family's view, than the mere stealing of kisses. He blew the family fortune through gambling and wild spending, lost Westover, committed suicide on New Year's Day, 1777. As a French and Indian War colonel, however, he had fought so gallantly that his portrait hangs today in the restored Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg. Most tourists are happily unaware that in the Revolutionary War his sympathies were with George...
Corsets & Asparagus. He had his closest call late in 1957. Thundering along the Ohio River at 175 m.p.h. during the Indiana Governor's Cup race, Miss Thriftway blew up spectacularly, hurling Muncey into the water. Luckily, he broke no bones; but he spent weeks in the hospital recovering from internal injuries, now wears a steel corset in every race. He sank the second Miss Thriftway in 1958, when he lost a rudder and rammed a 40-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. He placed a close second in the 1959 Gold Cup competition, won it for the third time...
...when he showed up for the final round, characteristically dressed in black ("It gives me strength"), Player looked like anything but confident: his eyes were red-rimmed, his face was ashen. Remembering that horrible week at the Masters tournament last April when he wound up tied with Palmer, then blew a big lead in the next day's 18-hole playoff, Player had not slept a wink. "I kept remembering that Masters playoff, and I began to worry," he said. "I don't want to be known as a choker." For 18 holes, he played a grim, conservative...
...court settlement of eleven suits brought against it by Government agencies that claimed to have been overcharged on G.E. equipment as a result of the conspiracy. All but $1,000,000 of the payment-the biggest antitrust settlement in history-will go to the Tennessee Valley Authority, which first blew the whistle on G.E. and 28 other electrical companies when it became suspicious of identical bids on heavy equipment...