Word: blew
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...waves cruised out of the sea and crashed across the land. Coastal settlements were washed out; those lying farther inland were flooded by fast-flowing water and picked to pieces by the screaming wind. Buildings that might have been strong enough to stand up to Carla's blasts blew down after wind-driven water undermined their foundations. Trees, water tanks, small boats, and assorted other projectiles swirled inland on Carla's floods and bludgeoned their way across country on her rising tides...
...captives is Yale's Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights wrestling with juvenile homework. The nights were worse than the days. When Daughter Sally bogged down in percentages, Papa Begle blew up. Sally's math book explained percentages three ways without touching on the common principle. "It was dull, terrible, uninteresting," growls Begle. "It was so revolting that I had to do something...
Nehru-already scheduled to go to Moscow from Belgrade on a state visit-and Nkrumah were asked to take the Khrushchev letter. Sukarno then proposed that he and Mali's President Modibo Keita carry the Kennedy letter to Washington as official messengers. At the word "official." Nehru blew up. He would not be anybody's messenger, he declared. He would carry the message only in an unofficial capacity, insisted that Nkrumah go in a separate plane...
Died. Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64, intuitive titan of the U.S. aircraft industry, an unmechanical, piano-playing Harvardman (class of '19) who made his first million by the age of 30, blew it manufacturing sport seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded to build into the nation's 28th biggest industrial corporation, with 1960 gross sales of $1,332,289,000; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from...
Reason for the U.S.L.T.A.'s action: Ralston blew up while losing a doubles match to Mexico in the American Zone Davis Cup finals in Cleveland last month. Weakened by a throat infection. Ralston tossed and kicked his racket, slammed the ball into the net in disgust at his own errors, swore loudly as he fell after being faked out of position. The stern arbiters of the U.S.L.T.A. seemed unimpressed by Ralston's impeccable behavior at Longwood against the same Mexican team that beat him and McKinley at Cleveland. Nor were the prim chaperons of U.S. tennis moved...