Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried to safety in French air force planes. To leave means defying the terrorists of the Secret Army Organization, who have decreed death for Europeans departing without an S.A.O. "visa." In a desperate effort to keep the 1,000,000 European population from dwindling further, the S.A.O.last week blew up the control tower at Algiers' airport...
...Shotton, where he saw his first movie. The town itself was almost as much of an astonishment as the "livin' pictiars." "Not only were the bicycles going quicker and ringing sharper bells, but the people with the preoccupied faces were walking brisker, the smoke from the strange houses blew faster, and even the town clouds, brown at the edges from smuts and sophistication, raced swifter over a man-made...
Though at times he blew foul or fraudulent, television will be forever indebted to Jack Paar for desperately needed williwaws of spontaneity. Observed Bobby...
...supposed to ignore such outbursts-but standing on dignity has grown increasingly uncomfortable for Prince Philip, who does not like newsmen anyway (he once kicked one), and has become highly sensitive to the Beaverbrook press's constant highlighting of the expenses of his trips. Last week the prince blew up. At a press reception in Rio de Janeiro in the midst of a Latin American tour, he collared a reporter from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious newspaper...
...dismissed the revolt as an outbreak of "banditry." But as farmhouses of European settlers went up in flames, troop convoys were ambushed in the deep valleys of the Aurès range, and guerrillas were trained and organized in the inaccessible crags of Kabylia, the French struck back. They blew up Moslem villages, made wholesale arrests, created empty regions known as zones interdites, where anything that moved was shot...