Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ease the blow, the War Office set up a special fund totaling nearly $140 million for severance payments, terminal grants and pensions. Examples: a colonel retired at 45 after 24 years' service can receive as much as $16,800 in severance pay, a terminal grant of $7,728, and a pension of $2,576 yearly. A sergeant retired after 17 years will receive $3,500 severance pay, a terminal grant of $630, a pension of $384 yearly...
...divorce there will be no comrades. Hungary serves a vivid lesson. As a result of disintegration and divorce a handful of Hungarian counterrevolutionaries, with help from abroad, were able to stage a blood bath in Budapest, when a mere sneeze from the party members should have been enough to blow them away...
...committee. The State Department turned down his request for passport validation on the ground that the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with that satellite. No man to allow international politics to take precedence over the higher imperatives of sport, Brundage fired his ire to newsmen: "Just imagine the blow to U.S. Olympic prestige! Why, if the president of the International Committee is unable to attend an important meeting, the United States might as well drop out of the games." Outlook by week's end: Brundage will get his passport...
...successfully is Bell Aircraft Corp.'s X-14, whose pictures were made public last week. Unlike Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s X-13 (TIME, May 20), which stands on its tail while taking off, the X-14 takes off in normal horizontal flying position. Its two jet engines blow their gas through thrust-diverters rather like Venetian blinds. The gas, deflected downward, pushes the airplane up. During the hovering period, jets of compressed air act as controls to keep it in the proper position. After the airplane is well off the ground, the thrust-diverter can be adjusted...
...last year, Ninian Sanderson, rode in the runner-up. A pair of French drivers took third; two Belgians were fourth. The fifth Jaguar was sixth. Said Flockhart's mustachioed co-driver, Ivor Bueb: "The Italian teams have a little Grand Prix of their own. and between themselves they blow one another up. My first rule always is to stay out of trouble." Running twice around the clock, only 21 of 54 starters finished, but Bueb and Flockhart's dark green car stayed out of trouble, completed the equivalent of five consecutive Indianapolis 500-mile races at a record...