Word: blooey
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...snow piled up in Manhattan, 13 inches in Philadelphia, and 14 inches in Washington, D.C., and no icicle-encrusted Lower Slobbovians were ever more solidly snowbound. Groaned one passenger who spent 13½ hours (instead of four) between Washington and New York: "A few inches of snow-and blooey...
...hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete, a monstrous mingling of common house cat and Long John Silver. Everything always went blooey, of course. Pegleg charging, music pounding, Minnie squealing-and Mickey rushing madly to the rescue...
...Easter Sunday, telegraph wires hummed with holiday messages. Suddenly something went blooey. Teletype messages began to arrive in jumbles like pied type. Short-wave radio to Europe, to ships at sea, was blotted out, stayed blotted for several hours. Wire photos arrived looking like surrealistic blobs. Cursing engineers pronounced it the worst disruption of service in the historyof long-distance telephone and radio communication...