Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILWAUKEE, WIS. Melody Top Tent. I Get a Kick out of You, You're the Top, Blow, Gabriel, Blow, and of course the title song Anything Goes are just four of the numbers that made Cole Porter's 1934 musical the tops for so long. It is still going strong, with Gretchen Wyler playing the original Ethel Merman role...
...Unless we blow our chance, the landing of Americans on the moon might signal more than the dawning of a new era in just a scientific sense. This great day has united the human spirit and merged past dreams with present actuality...
...Four (the United States, the U.S.S.R., Britain and France), produced little progress. Neither Israel nor Egypt, the major antagonists, displayed any interest in compromise. On the contrary, both were intent on expanding the scale of their attacks. The pattern was clear: strike and counterstrike, with each major blow more vicious than the last...
KANU had recently been dealt a reeling blow in a parliamentary by-election for a vacant seat in the Luo constituency of Gem. Though Gem had been carried handsomely by KANU in the previous election, the district in May gave a lopsided victory to the candidate of the Kenya People's Union, the opposition party headed by an emotional Luo leftist, Oginga Odinga. Realizing that many Luo tribesmen had come under Odinga's sway, President Jomo Kenyatta asked Mboya to undertake an emergency reorganization of KANU before national elections, which must be held before next June. Mboya...
Despite the excitement of the past weekend one can only fear that the successful flight of Apollo 11 has dealt a final blow to the Romantic spirit. (To say nothing of Greek mythology, which has succumbed to the ascendency of the number.) Gone forever are the days of the Byronic hero--Houston's psychological testing batteries have seen to that. In any case, it is difficult to imagine a sanctimonious Richard Nixon welcoming home an explorer in the tradition of Sir Francis Drake...