Word: blowout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earlier, soberer parts of the evening, the Eli spirit that might ensure such a win seemed notably absent. The game of games, in fact, seemed only to be regarded by the Blue as an excuse for a large-scale blowout. Nobody resident here appeared to be either worried or excited about the meeting in the Bowl...
...endless toil, which wondered in bewilderment what was happening to it. The little man in India had never asked for Pakistan or Hindustan or even for independence, except when his leaders told him. He was scarcely aware who ruled him. Recently a tattered Hindu peasant helped to repair a blowout on a car in the Punjab. Asked what he thought of the Government in New Delhi (now a temporary, joint Hindu-Moslem Cabinet, operating under viceregal veto), he replied, "I never heard...
...local freethinker and scoffer at the Gospel, Fred Ammermeyer. decided he would beat the missions at their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...
...make the blowout a success, Harriman and Assistant Paul ("Piggy") Warburg had worked overtime bullying caterers and procuring gin, bourbon and some synthetic fruit juices. There was no ice or Scotch to be had. "I thought Americans always had ice and Scotch," muttered a few disgruntled Britons, but for others the plebeian spirits did well enough. A few drunks were soon reeling here & there. The dignified staggers of U.S. junior officers drew many a disparaging glance and word from moralizing chauffeurs clustered at the entrance. Only the waiters and bartenders seemed unhappy. As the afternoon wore on they grew progressively...
Martha Gellhorn, 36, gilt-haired, restless novelist-correspondent (for Collier's), wife of Collier's War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway, driving between Toulouse and Paris, lost control of her car after a blowout, dived over a 16-ft. embankment, cracked...