Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers saw in the election a blow to Italian influence in the Balkans, a restoration of French and English prestige. The Jugoslav press, delighted, prophesied peace in the Balkans, hoped for early ratification of the treaty which gives Jugoslavia a free harbor at Saloniki...
Translated, the motto means: "Strongly blow the winds of freedom." It is itself an authentic breath from the pre-Bismarckian Germany, which loved beer and learning and the hearth and which was not at all imperialist...
Home Life. Terrible are the winds and temperatures of Antarctica. On many a winter's day, explorers shiver in weather 70 or 80 degrees below zero, no degrees below freezing. For the foundations of their six houses, they must use ice. Gales will blow great banks of snow against doors and windows...
...basic difference exists between the naval requirements of Great Britain and France. The Empire depends primarily upon surface craft to rule waves. The Republic must rely upon submarines to blow up such surface ships as approach her shores-because France has a huge army to support and cannot spare the cash to compete with Great Britain in surface warboats. Submarines, being the cheapest effective naval weapon of defense, are in high favor with the "coast-defensive"* navies of France...
...Yankee Stadium, by terrific punches to his heart, by jabs and hooks which made a bloody mush of his nose and left eye. From the fourth to the tenth round, "The Hard Rock from Downunder" was being chewed. And then his jaw, game and unchewed, received a blow which caused the heavy sound upon the canvas of a falling body. Several seconds passed and what was left of Heeney remained almost motionless. Then the gong rang, ending the tenth round. Heeney's seconds carried him to his corner, poured water on him, rubbed him, wiped some of the blood...