Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure in the Snark's guidance system. Ignoring its ground-to-electronic-brain orders, the errant missile veered sharply out of flight pattern and shot westward. When the missile's ground-locked pilots realized it was out of control, they pushed the button that was supposed to blow it up in midair. But the Snark refused to commit suicide. When last seen by radar, it was slipping over the South American horizon. Happily, it carried no warhead...
Dean Feyzioglu's troubles began when he gently rebuked the government last month for blocking the promotion of a colleague who had founded a magazine critical of Turkey's economic plight. To Feyzioglu, the government's action against the professor was a serious blow "to the principle of university autonomy." In almost any other country such a remark might have gone unnoticed. But it was too much for Premier Adnan Menderes...
Charlie Wilson tried to soften the blow against the Army by pointing out that the peacetime assignments did not necessarily predetermine the weapons and forces that field commanders could use in war time. He also promised that the Army could conduct "feasibility studies" on the use of an intermediate-range missile. But his assurances did not mollify the Army brass. Snapped a top Army planner when Wilson's decision was handed down: "This thing isn't going to stop us." The Army's probable next line of defense: congressional hearings at budget time...
...colonel redoubled his efforts. Despite the fact that the Libyan government declared its wholehearted support of Egypt, and required British forces to remain at their bases, Colonel Sadek proclaimed that it was the "servant of imperialism." In the first few days after the assault, his "Front" managed to blow up one section of the pipeline carrying oil from Tripoli's port to Wheelus Field, had bombs thrown at Barclays Bank and a small Jewish store. The Prime Minister himself protested to the Egyptian embassy. The colonel responded by smuggling 28 cases of automatic arms into the embassy, and (said...
...Production Chief Dore Schary got the ax last week. Stockholders were dissatisfied because they thought that profits under Schary's eight-year regime had not been high enough (TIME, Nov. 12). What softened the blow for Schary was a $1,000,000-plus settlement to be spread over about ten years. Schary is the fourth Hollywood production boss to go in recent months. The others: 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Paramount's Don Hartman, Columbia's Jerry Wald. Schary's ousting put the movie industry's seal...