Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried to rise above the 10,000-ft. peaks around them. They attempted to turn back. Then, eyewitnesses said, the three planes seemed to be blown together; there was a violent crash as they momentarily interlocked, a burst of flame. Like two stones the Santa Maria and Pinta fell to earth, crashed side by side in the bottom of a shallow creek. On fire, the Nina struggled a few seconds, crashed a few hundred yards from...
...they will knock out the other. Likewise, in beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they, too, are not entering into this eternal triangle with a clear, calm, and impartial mind. If the government is not always right, neither is labor, nor business itself...
...accumulated deposits of a village site, ranging in depth from a yard or so to 16 ft., contain ashes, shells, sea urchin spines, rotted wood and sod, bones of fish, birds and mammals (including whales), blown dust or silt, organic refuse of all sorts. Naturally the scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island...
...ears of the 25 had become attuned to the differing bursts of Rightist artillery. Unanimously they agreed that more nine-inch high explosive shells were being blown at Madrid than for months past, expensive artillery was concentrating on the Madrid front...
...When the final whistle is blown a joyful throng will make a bee-line for the goal-posts. Unless these are stoutly defended they will be torn to shreds in the twinkling of an eye. By this time one band will have struck up a tune and the other will have beat a hasty retreat. The crowd, of course, will mill around and the police will nab old offenders. I autloipate numerous celebrations of the victory and frequent brushes with the police...