Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years it makes powdery earth rise as from a beaten rug. In 1935 its driving fury made the Dust Bowl a national problem. Not since then has the high wind blown as it blew last week...
...ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast a lurid account of a revolution in London, complete with Big Ben Tower blown up, the National Gallery ablaze. Famed at Oxford is "Ronnie" Knox's reply to a fellow-undergraduate who wrote the Hegelian limerick...
...worn suitcases of officers and men of the rear-guard brigade commanded by General Enrique Lister. But the great and incalculably valuable bulk of it was either hidden beneath rocks and trees in the Spanish Pyrenees-where it will be searched for until Kingdom Come-or had been blown to Kingdom Come in the courtyard of Figueras Castle...
...clock in the morning, Mrs. Shreck heard her 36-year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled and rolled for three days...
...were no hospital facilities to take care of the 20,000 wounded. Soldiers and civilians injured in air raids wandered around, their wounds festering after days of inattention, looking for aid. Correspondents roaming through the refugee region sent back countless vignettes of human suffering: one crazed refugee, his arm blown off by an air raid, carrying his baby under his good arm, was looking for his wife and remaining children, who he did not know had been killed in the same air raid; new born babies nestling beside new born lambs; soldiers and civilians sleeping among flocks of sheep...