Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disarmed Christian police demanded that the Moslem villagers restore their arms, roughly ordered Moslem women to aid them in searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol to mark other Arab homes, announced: "We are prepared to spare one house for each rifle returned...
Almost two quarters passed of play before the sky could no longer hold back its tears. They were first sobs, blown against the cheek by the wind. Small, individual parts of the mass buttoned coats, donned cellophane slickers, threw newspapers over their heads. The sobs became hysterical weeping, and water slashed upon the stands and upon twenty-two men playing like intent children with a pigskin...
...vast was its indignation that in a single day in the first battle of the Marne, 287 German shells smashed into the 800-year-old Cathedral of Reims. By 1919 the Cathedral was a shambles, its 400-ton lead roof melted, nearly all of its great stained-glass windows blown out, 24 of its 35 ancient statues wrecked, all its flying buttresses demolished or badly damaged. Altogether the damage amounted to 140,000,000 francs (then $27,000,000). Among benefactors who contributed millions of francs to the restoration of Reims were the late ex-Empress...
...outside Gloucester. Somebody had said something to the gods of wind and wave; they were in a fury. Salt spray was lashing over the deck, the bow dug through green water as it plowed along undecided whether to be a boat or a submarine. One sail had blown to shreds and he struggled to get up a trisail, a little handkerchief of a sail, in its stead. The din of the wind and the water dulled his hearing. Then he saw the wind and waves and water receding as be sneaked into Boston harbor to ride out the gale...
...airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles, earned from four appreciative airlines a silver mug and the title of No. 1 air traveler in the land (TIME, Feb. 1). An accomplished orchestrator, Conductor Kostelanetz was at the same time rated No. 1 in radio popularity. He specializes in lush, full-blown arrangements of popular and semiclassical numbers and this week on his radio half-hour for Chesterfield cigarets (WABC), he prepared to launch what his sponsors declare is a new musical style, presenting brief, "streamlined" versions of symphonic works...