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Word: blew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...songs dealt with all sorts of . One was about "a girl with as soft as velvet, and she blew up in the Polish resistance to and another described a more girl on the Colorado trail. A melody told of "dean's inspecting at Swarthmore, where "more- and there...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Seeger's Political Ballads Drew Standing Ovations | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...five children that includes one Chinese-Hawaiian and one who is part American Indian. He antagonized local medicos by treating, for free, the youngsters and oldsters that most of them were refusing to treat even for a fee. Still, the County Medical Society let him in. Then a storm blew up over an unrelated matter: Dr. O'Rourke's Quaker-pacifist wife refused, on grounds of conscience, to pledge allegiance to the flag. Dr. O'Rourke figured that he had better offer to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Politics & Practice | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Just when the hitters began to come through, after spring training, the pitching blew sky high. Wildness was the mound staff's main problem, and that added to a few defensive lapses cancelled out the team's rejuvenated hitting power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Tries To Lengthen Streak In Brandeis Game | 5/9/1961 | See Source »

...Communist guerrillas in South Viet Nam, called Viet Cong, burn villages, capture rice barges, mine roads, extort money and food from peasants. Last year, in thousands of little quick strikes, they blew up 284 bridges, killed 4,000 officials, village elders, soldiers and farmers. Last week, with South Viet Nam headed for the polls in a presidential election, fighting broke out all over. Just north of Saigon, an army patrol blundered into a Viet Cong ambush, lost 13 dead and eleven wounded. Forty miles south of Saigon. the army surprised seven companies of Viet Cong, killed 54 and captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Richer Prize | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Someone was in the Kitchen Cabinet with Bundy. Widely reported as having written off the Administration's early accomplishments-"At this point, we are like the Harlem Globetrotters, passing forward, behind, sideways and underneath. But nobody has made a basket yet"-White House Aide McGeorge Bundy blew the whistle last week. Explaining that he had just been fending off compliments to the Kennedy Administration, had quoted Cambridge-Washington Colleague Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (who had in turn borrowed the gag from Capital Attorney Paul A. Porter), Harvard's ex-faculty dean hustled out his own scorecard: "My position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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