Word: blew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire, instead of discharging normally from the special tassles on the plane, somehow found its way into the pressure vent and touched off the gas fumes. The fire raced back to the tank, blowing a hole in the right fuselage and exploding a wing tank that in turn blew off the right wing...
...lower Broadway, shredded phone books and chopped newsprint spewed from high windows that opened over the motorcade. At city hall, the Army band shook the ticker tape from its tubas and blew a manful Marseillaise, while the trip hammers of nearby street wreckers and a 21-gun salute shattered the Manhattan noon. To France's visiting President Charles de Gaulle, it must have seemed as if New York City had emptied its wastebaskets on his head and blown up the seat of government by way of greeting...
...dealerships, but introduced him to Byron Nelson, the Texas pro with the great iron game who flourished at the end of World War II. After Nelson had tightened his swing, Venturi surprised the golfing world as an amateur of 24 by nearly winning the 1956 Masters (he blew up on the last day with an eight-over-par 80). Many pros think that Venturi's rigid, blueprint approach to golf is the main reason he has never won a major tournament. Admits Nelson: "Ken accepted what I told him as law, maybe to the point of overdoing it." But Venturi...
...night Palmer plays bridge that is as bold and bad as his golf is bold and good, dozes contentedly before TV horse operas. Says Finsterwald: "He'll watch anything with manure in it." So close do the family relationships become that Peggy Palmer, watching Finsterwald on television when he blew a crucial putt during the Masters, almost burst into tears: "Poor Uncle...
...than half a ton of food. The Navy's thanks: statements by the base workers' union boss, Machinist Federico Figueras Larrazabal, that "workers at the naval base have to be alert to unmask any maneuver of the North American imperialists similar to that they performed when they blew up the Maine." As of last week, the Navy fired Figueras for this and similar remarks...