Word: blow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-to learn." -The Sword in the Stone...
...panicked exodus of Asians trying to beat the deadline dealt the Kenyan economy a severe blow. Demand has dropped sharply along with heavy capital losses--an average of 5000 pounds follows every Asian family that leaves Kenya...
...management." It stopped short of the outright democratization that many Czechoslovaks are clamoring for, and made abundantly clear the Communist Party's unwillingness to permit challenges as yet to its dominant political role. Nonetheless, the remarkable document officially retired many bits of Marxist dogma and dealt a staggering blow to the institutions of the police state...
...annually. Last week, capping a month-long campaign, Castro's government announced that this last, lonely bastion of capitalism has been all but wiped out and the dispossessed businessmen put to work in fields and factories. Cried the official newspaper Granma: "The revolutionary offensive has dealt a decisive blow not only to parasites and domestic exploiters but also to Yankee imperialism, which counted on them for the cultivation of criminal plots...
...Ascoli, 69, the final blow was the abuse heaped upon him because of his support of the U.S. position in Asia and Viet Nam. In a recent issue, he lamented the loss of onetime friends and the "feeling of loneliness" it gave him. Though subscribers stayed steady at 210,000, their identity changed; Ascoli feels that he was losing liberal and academic readers and that the loss was causing publishing houses to reduce their advertising. Ad pages, which stood at a moderately money-losing 543 in 1963, dropped to a painfully money-losing 401 last year...