Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coypu reached England in 1927 from Argentina, imported by several East Anglian farmers who wanted to cash in on the market for nutria coats. Then one stormy night ten years later, a strong wind blew down the pens on the nutria farm of P.E.T. Carill-Worsley in East Anglia, and some eight animals escaped. The wild coypus in England are descendants of those first escapees...
...Nine Best Men." The man who blew the whistle on Silver & Co. was their legal boss. State Commissioner of Education James E. Allen, Jr. For years, Allen has tried to get the city's schools fiscally free, politically sanitized and decentralized, with more power going to the 54 presently impotent local boards. For weeks, he has urged the top board to clean house or quit. Asked by Governor Rockefeller to recommend action, Allen called for a special session of the legislature to organize an interim school board, appointed by the State Board of Regents, and set up an advisory...
When Japan's Honda Motor Co. first entered its machines in the big European motorcycle races two years ago, one Western racing buff snorted: "We knew the Japanese made good rickshas, but we didn't know they made motorcycles." Honda's bikes soon blew exhaust fumes in the scoffer's face. Seven of this year's ten international Grand Prix motorcycle races have been run so far, and Honda's machines have lapped the best in Europe. Under the complicated scoring system of motorcycling's Olympics, Honda has piled up 106 points...
Coming Down. Back at Canaveral, the electronic computers carefully watched the capsule's trajectory. They announced (through human intermediaries) that it would take Grissom to almost exactly the chosen impact point (302 miles down range)-though wind finally blew him six miles off target. Excitement rose on the aircraft carrier Randolph, whose helicopters were hovering to pluck the capsule out of the water. Second-by-second reports came down from space, Grissom chatting over his radio with Shepard...
...Bullies of both races extorted nickels and dimes from younger students; when arguments started, the races closed ranks. To prevent gang fights, teachers patrolled the lavatories, frisked pupils for razors, switchblades, and beer can openers with honed edges. Though officials hushed up the mess for three years, the lid blew off in 1958, when young Negro toughs beat up two white teachers. White students fled the school, and few dreamed that it would ever be good again. Said one teacher as he quit combustible Central: "They don't pay me enough for that...