Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrolling bombers, sniffing at the winds that blow out of Russia, picked up the radioactive cloud (see SCIENCE). They followed the radioactive trail for days and thousands of miles, gathering the data by which scientists could measure its size, assess its contents. Intelligence officers queried their sources. As the reports came to the capital, half a dozen of the nation's top atomic physicists were gathered there in deepest secrecy. Besides the President and Secretary of Defense Johnson, fewer than two dozen men knew...
...when he was 40, Henry M. Blackmer had developed the habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
...suggested Columbia is no BOMM. They might RUSSEL our WHYTE hair slightly, he announced. But since I'm on MIONE, I WANSELOW score to result from HOLTEEN their line and trying to WARD off the blue CANNON. We should SAUTTER down the field and STRAKA the first blow for DaELASIO victory. Next week CONNELL but even if I'm MALONE now I give my BLESSING VITONE look so bad. Harvard 18 Columbia...
...lowly Chicago Cubs struck another blow at the Cardinals' pennant hopes yesterday by edging the Redbirds, 6 to 5. Ace St. Louis outfielder Stan Musial committed one of his rare errors in a bad spot, for the two runs that scored subsequently proved to be the winning margin. Bob Rush was the winning pitcher for Chicago though he was aided by four shutout innings of relief pitching by Walter Dubiel...
...ancient Belgian city of Tournai (pop. 32,000) got a double blow in World War II. First German, then Allied bombs wrecked half its homes, wiped out many of its historic monuments and art treasures; by last year Tournai had rebuilt only 100 or so of its thousands of damaged dwellings. A group of citizens decided that sagging morale needed a boost, began to collect some reminders of the days when Tournai was one of the art centers of the western world. They visited neighboring chateaux, searched dusty parish churches and libraries, sent off letters to distant museums, burrowed...