Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Varsity captain Mark Mullin broke even with Terrier Art Freeman in two rip-roaring battles. In the mile, Freeman took an early lead, and dogged it through a 70.0 440. Mullin blew by him soon after, and won by 20 yards...
...Outparts. Last week Diefenbaker flew to Newfoundland, stumping through remote outparts where no Prime Minister had ever visited before. Lester Pearson blew into the small Ontario pulp and paper town of Espanola, Ont. (pop. 5,000) to be nominated once again as Espanola's Member of Parliament. Said he earlier in the week: "Under Liberal governments in the postwar years, our economic record was the envy of the world. Now, our friends in other countries ask, 'What has happened to Canada?' It is Tory government that has happened-a wrong the people will soon make right...
...afternoon, a carriage of Sweden's royal household came to a stop before a weathered granite tombstone inscribed HJALMAR HAMMARSKJOLD FAMILY GRAVE. Six pallbearers in tall top hats and long black coats lifted down a mahogany casket, lowered it silently into an open grave. An eddy of wind blew a few leaves into the grave. "Sleep you now in the garden of heaven," said Lutheran Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren. "Rest in peace, Dag Hammarskjold...
Following a bad storm in the evening, Nickerson and Patterson started for the summit on July 9, as the other three were to wait for a few hours before their ascent. A storm blew up, the trio was left below, and Nickerson and Patterson were caught near the summit. They made their way later through 50-mile-an-hour winds (at -5 or -10 degrees) with minimum visibility...
Last week Susskind's hostmanship finally blew the cork, deluged the show in fizz and fuzz. The occasion was the seasonal opener of Open End, and the evening's topic was a weighty one: Frank Sinatra's Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully...