Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the narrow upper exit of the capsule. But the capsule was stifling from the heat of reentry. "I'd been sweating for a long period of time," Glenn recalled, "and it seemed like the thing to do was to get on out of there at that time." He blew the side hatch, stepped out onto the deck of the Noa into the afternoon sun and was given a glass of iced tea. "It was hot in there," said John Glenn. His historic flight was over...
...Ohio, where his father, by turns, was a railroad conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed the town Saint's Rest. But even for New Concord, young Glenn's standards were strict...
...freshman hockey team, earlier, blew a 2-0 lead and settled for a 2-3 overtime tie with Princeton. The Yardlings' record...
Sheepish Surrender. Scarcely had the streets been cleared than ten new plastic bombs exploded in widely separated parts of Paris. One blew in the windows of the Soviet news agency, Tass. At week's end a one-hour workers' strike to protest the police methods used to break up the Bastille demonstration stalled Parisian industry and business. City and suburban buses halted, the Paris subway and commuter train service was affected. Actress Brigitte Bardot, who had won respect last November by publicly defying an S.A.O. blackmail attempt, walked off a movie set along with film technicians...
...with the streets cleared of all ordinary traffic, the police prowl cars were fine targets for S.A.O. snipers coolly firing from apartment windows and rooftops. S.A.O. gunmen staged seven bank and payroll holdups, netting $130,000. Another S.A.O. detachment climbed to the sixth floor of the Algiers Prefecture building, blew up the state radio transmitter that was the government's main channel of communication with Paris, since both the French army and civilian radio services are heavily infiltrated by S.A.O. sympathizers...