Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orbit. Most of the others in the launching crew were equally in the dark and equally furious during the first moments of flight, when they noted from instruments that the Atlas was not heading on its customary course down range. When they yelled for the range safety officer to blow it up, he refused. He was a member of the tight little "club...
...Favorites. To soften the blow a bit, the government offered a special rate of 57 pesetas to the dollar compared to the official rate of 42. But Franco seemed to be playing no favorites. Among those caught were such men as the powerful Conde de Arteche, chairman of the Banco de Bilbao, and Juan March, one of the world's richest men. Also involved were Franco-sponsored organizations, such as the giant Institute Nacional de Industria, which controls everything from airlines to steel mills...
...unnamed official of the Union de Banques Suisse. For Switzerland, whose banks have for so long prospered in peace or war (other people's wars) on the secret accounts of the high and mighty, Franco's arrest of Swiss bankers was a rude and unexpected blow. Said an official of Société de Banque Suisse: "We are taking a very serious view. The matter concerns all banks and our entire banking system...
Back in Manhattan after finishing her first film role in two years (as a hip-rolling cutie in Director Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), distraught Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe rested in seclusion from a bitter blow: only 16½ months after doctors had removed an embryo by surgery to save her life (TIME. Aug. 12, 1957). a miscarriage had, after some three months, ended her latest try for motherhood...
...audience's final memories of the play, like the playwright's of what went into it, are friendly and touching. But its Boy-Meets-Girl and its Youth-Faces-Life episodes do more than blow a cold wind upon it; then throw cold water...