Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lynch, one of the eight men who conspired to blow up London with dynamite, has confessed that the plot was hatched in America by Dr. Gallagher and Whitehead and that O'Donovan Rossa was implicated in the scheme...
Third round - Both men fought hard from the beginning, and Page by a round blow floored his antagonist. The bout was given to Page...
...attempt was made last evening to blow up the local government building in Westminster, Eng. Considerable damage was done but no lives were lost. It is generally believed to be the work of Fenians. An attempt to blow up the office of the London Times was also discovered and frustrated...
Second round. - Page led off with a neat round arm blow in the side, which he followed up left and right on Lee's head. Page kept his wind very well indeed and continued to force the fighting with good success although Lee was not backward in returning and countered with good success...
...dangerously near. Now, we object as much as any to unnecessary "slugging," but our observation at the last few winter meetings has been that much of the best and most legitimate sparring has been hissed. A sparring match consists in something more than "squaring off" and occasionally exchanging a blow, and if the spectators insist in hissing every sttempt to go beyond this we cannot hope to see much good work...