Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideal flying weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from the northwest. As New York waited to welcome Astronaut John Glenn, American Airlines' Flight One-nonstop to Los Angeles-screamed down the runway of International Airport at Idlewild, consuming a normal 5,000 feet of concrete before it left the ground in a perfect takeoff. Two minutes later, the flight of American One was over-and so were the lives of its 95 passengers and crew members. It was the worst tragedy involving a single plane...
Heroes for Pedestals. In its heyday during "The Troubles" (1916-21), when ragged irregulars blew up barracks and bridges and battled England's Black and Tans, the rebellion bred more than enough heroes and martyrs to fill all the pedestals that remained when the Irish finished dynamiting English statuary. It boasted as many wits and eccentrics, from the unknown patriot who dubbed Queen Victoria "The Famine Queen," to Robert Bolton, who escaped from Dublin's Mount joy Prison after leaving a note explaining politely that the accommodations were below his accustomed standard...
Their matchless energy finally running low, Brother Plenipotentiary Bobby Kennedy and Hurricane Ethel blew into Washington's National Airport from the last leg of their four-week, 14-country world tour. Eagerly waiting at the field was their brood of seven, which had prepared a skit parodying the parental trip. But before the breathless kids could go onstage, the nation's business intervened again. "We're going to the White House," announced the Attorney General. Wondered his Washington-wise wife: "To get debriefed...
...paper, it looked like the perfect way to put Republicans on the spot in an election year. But last week, put into practice, the scheme blew up in the Kennedy Administration's face...
...trail of death and disaster in its wake. Raging seas and roaring winds that reached a velocity of 177 m.p.h. blitzed dikes, flooded cities, inundated farm land, and capsized ships from Denmark to the British Isles. So strong were the gales at Britain's Catterick racetrack that gusts blew race horses off their legs and sent their jockeys flying...