Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into play, being hurled in packets of 25 lbs. with short-cut fuses, sizzling and whirling over the walls and battlements. At the same time the workers' militia stormed forward with bayonets fixed, the women putting up a barrage of hand grenades. The antique iron-plated gate was blown from its hinges with dynamite, and the sweat-streaming, half-naked advance guard poured into the greatest stronghold but one on the northern front...
...German Olympics reached the U. S. (see cuts) all German newsorgans were prevented by the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment from so much as mentioning that last week Jewish-blooded Captain Wolfgang Fuerstner, the Army officer responsible for construction of Berlin's excellent Olympic Village, had blown out his brains. Non-Aryan Captain Fuerstner had hoped in vain that, as a reward for his work for the Olympics, he would be permitted to retain his Army rank, something now denied in Germany to all non-Aryans...
...July 13), last week had something new and hard on his hands. Highly excitable Spanish syndicalists fell to quarreling with the Socialist building trade-unions, decided that the only thing to do was to blow up water mains. With a will, syndicalists fell to this work and soon had blown up so many mains that half the residential buildings in Madrid were without water...
...snub-nosed Opal Sorenson, telephone company employe. Together with two giggling high-school girls, she put on bathing suit and rubber boots, climbed into a huge wooden bowl. From two nearby trucks two pretty girls chucked tons of lettuce into an ensilage cutter. Shredded to bits, it was then blown into the bowl. Queen Sorenson added 100 gallons of ready-mixed mayonnaise. Wading in, the three girls stirred, churned, whipped, mashed. Dripping from head to foot with lettuce & mayonnaise, they pitchforked it out to eager Kentians, for whom there is no tastier dish...
...wonderful chemical training. In fact, he has discovered a new high explosive with which he plans to blow up Kravnik building by building. To the love-sharpened eyes of Lisa his little scheme is soon apparent, but no one else suspects him, even after he has blown up two of Kravnik's prize landmarks. In spite of Lisa's pleas, he firmly intends to go on from there; but in a street brawl he gets a clout on the head that leaves him blind for life. Thwarted but still untamed, he gets Lisa to guide...