Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarm of 75,000 bees which came hiving out of nowhere soon after the plane landed in Salisbury, to take up happy residence in one of its wings. Central's mechanics scattered, and to replace them, the airline called in a local beekeeper, Jack Garrett. Blow smoke or gas into the wing, he advised. No, said the airline engineers: formic acid from the dead bees might hurt the metal or the rubber on the gas tanks...
...Harder They Fall (Columbia). When Budd Schulberg wrote the novel from which this picture is drawn, he hoped it might prove to be a sort of Uncle Tom's Cabin of the fight racket, a body blow to one of the least savory survivals of slavery in U.S. society: the tradition of the chattel athlete. Author Schulberg hit hard, but he was striking at bulletproof-vested interests, and in the nine years since he made his attack, these interests (on evidence adduced in recent investigations) seem to have grown even stronger. This picture will not seriously weaken them...
...acoustically perfect, especially on a windy night. The deep resonance, which so distinguishes a good men's chorus, was caught up and diffused by the breeze Tuesday when the Glee Club gave its first spring concert on the steps of Widener. When the rich lower sonorities had blow away, what was left was often a bit scraggly...
...dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by the Truman administration was a disastrous blow to the prestige of American foreign policy and to the fate of the Far East," Colonel Lawrence Bunker '26, MacArthur's chief aide in the Korean conflict, said last night...
...bases were quickly filled on singles by Getch, Stahura, and Haughey. Rossano walked, to force in one run. Three more runs scored, respectively, on a ground out by Bergantino, another safe blow by Cleary, and a force-out by Simourian. Hastings walked, and then Botsford drove in the inning's two final runs on a single to left-center