Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first machines were massive, noisy, and filled with toxic chemicals. A major breakthrough came in 1938, with the introduction of a system that blew high-velocity air through thin conduits, eliminating the need for bulky air ducts in air-conditioning large buildings. With postwar prosperity-and advances in metallurgy, refrigerants and technique-the window air conditioner was introduced to an eager market, and the industry...
...measured in poker hands), and the bandsmen hoped they might have time for some sleep before the concert. As it turned out, they had time only for showers before piling out into 90-degree heat in the big tent where they were to play. For all that, the band blew its lungs out for two hours; in such numbers as Malaguena and Waltz of the Prophets it produced the most exciting big-band sound around...
Bubble Ink & Beer. As he tells it, he had only $11 to his name when he bought his first ball club-the minor league Milwaukee Brewers-and he blew $10 of that celebrating the event. In later years, he was playing with millions, and his fortunes zigzagged up and down just as fast. His teams won pennants and finished dead last. He set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 in Cleveland is still a major league mark) and flirted with bankruptcy. A confessed "publicity hound" who for years stumped around on a wooden peg (he lost...
...fame, most alumni like to do something nice for their alma mater. Not so Burma's military strongman, General Ne Win, an alumnus of Rangoon University, who last week handed his old school a painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations...
Just a Hobby. Scherbaum sailed through the Brandenburg No. 2 last week as if it were as simple as Au Clair de la Lune. Nonchalantly placing his weight on one leg, the egg-shaped instrumentalist blew through the intricacies of the high coloratura with characteristic ease; he blasted a final, full-volume flourish that brought an audible gasp from the audience. Chances are that he could have gone through the whole piece with his eyes shut: he has recorded the concerto for 14 different labels, has become so thoroughly identified with it that in Western and Eastern Europe alike...