Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force the integuments more than the size of the palm of a man's hand; blowing off and fracturing the sixth rib . . . , fracturing the fifth, rupturing the lower portion of the left lobe of the lung and lacerating the stomach by a spicule of the rib that was blown through its coat; landing the charge, wadding, fire in among the fractured ribs and lacerated muscles and integuments and burning the clothing and flesh to a crisp. I was called to him immediately after the accident. Found a portion of the lung as large as a turkey...
...payment of excessive prices in the acquisition of properties has not been the only way in which this condition has been created. There are other methods by which the Associated has blown up its capitalization, causing it to inflate to dangerous dimensions. By a process of issuing bonds at discounts, repurchasing them at premiums, then reselling the same bonds at lower than repurchase price, and finally redeeming them at par, or above, before the date of maturity, the Associated Gas and Electric Company has created enormous liabilities. As a result of such transactions, the funds obtained have been far short...
...fact that approximately 119 officers in the Cuban Army were shot or blown into small pieces by Baptista's rank-and-file Monday has certainly strengthened the case of those who have sounded the usual cry: "Let's intervene to establish law and order." Advocates of this course cite the civil war in progress and the strong possibility of its expansion in the future; they argue the irreconcilability of the opposing factions and declare that even a dictatorship of the Machado stamp is preferable to anarchy. There is some logical force behind this stand: as long as a large part...
Jail is the penalty for shouting "Heil Hitler!" ("Hail Hitler!") or any other Nazi slogan in Czechoslovakia. Last week Prague chuckled at the zeal of a town judge in Jagerndorf. Before the judge was brought a prosperous Silesian businessman arrested in peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...
...would it go. The ground crew dragged the bag back; part of the heavy apparatus was unloaded. Still no luck. After two hours of struggle, Air Com-mander Garankidze wearily ordered: "De- flate." The ripcord was yanked and the silvery bag billowed to earth. C. A German racing balloon, blown by a stiff wind clear out of Germany and across the North Sea, landed on the English coast. Its crew of three suffered first a ducking, then the embarrassment of being arrested for trespassing on the scene of British secret naval practice...