Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane touched down on the east-west runway at about 130 m.p.h., rolled 1,000 yds., then swerved suddenly to the right. There was a staccato burst of explosions as all four tires on the right landing gear blew out. The big jet skidded wildly across the field for another 300 yds. Then it struck a parked truck and smashed into the unyielding, 30-in.-high concrete shoulder of a jet taxiway still under construction. The tremendous impact ripped loose the engines and landing gear. Orange flames crackled along the plane's left side and swept toward the rear...
Next day an Eastern Air Lines DC-8 approaching Miami also lost hydraulic pressure. Captain H. O. Hudgins, 50, brought the plane down normally, used up his reserve supply of hydraulic fluid and had to try the air brakes. They locked, all the tires blew out, and the plane careened off the runway. But there were no nearby obstacles for it to hit and no one was hurt. Back at Denver the day after that, another UAL DC-8 pilot on a training flight reported low hydraulic pressure, emergency rigs stood by, but the landing was normal...
...tool in the hands of the strong and powerful and in the hands of fate itself. . . Where there is no responsibility, there can be no guilt." Thus, finishing 70 hours of testimony, he closed up the last of the brown folders from which he had produced mountains of documents, blew his nose heartily and leaned back to receive the onslaught of cross-questioning from Attorney General Gideon Hausner...
...took his favorite gun, which, like almost everything he owned, was not merely a thing but a ceremonial object. A twelve-gauge, double-barreled shotgun inlaid with silver, it had been specially made for Hemingway. He put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled both triggers. The blast blew his whole head away except for his mouth, his chin, and part of his cheeks...
...year-old Y was an evangelical organization that excluded what Whalen called "Romanists, Jews and infidels." Few Catholics have paid heed to theological lint-picking over what is now virtually a community organization. In Dallas, however, the Times-Herald last week front-paged the Sunday Visitor article and promptly blew up a storm. "Active membership in the Y is closed to Catholics," the paper quoted the diocese's Roman Catholic information director, "the same as the Methodist Youth Fellowship is not for Catholic teenagers." Many Dallas Catholics were outraged. "They're not going to tell...