Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with hair of jet, a stocky little figure in velvet flounces, with a broad, flat face of extraordinary mobility. Her black eyes grew slowly wider and deeper as a spattering storm of applause burst upon her, swelled and rumbled with calls of "Brava! Brava!" which took five minutes to blow over...
...true that Author Hawkes does as others do, but not all do as he does. Not all have overcome a like amount of difficulty. Not all have a quiet country house easily distinguishable to its many visitors by flocks of wild birds that refuse to leave the vicinity, blow, hail and snow as it may Not all, living in a dark world the size of a haycock, have led thousand into the wide light world of all-outdoors...
With the University leading by three runs in the last of the fifth, Captain Todd opened the inning with a solid triple over the head of the left fielder. The hit could have been stretched to a circuit blow but the Crimson leader was held at third. Lord hit a hard ground ball and when the short stop juggled it, Todd scored and the University first sacker was safe at first. Lord scored on Sullivan's scratch hit through the infield. In the sixth, three hits, a base on balls and two errors gave the winners four tallies. Zarakov walked...
...with one man out, and Pierce drove him in with a hard double. The real scoring began in the Freshman half of the first session, however, when Miyakawa walked, was scarified to second and scored on Donahy's long drive to deep center which went for a three ply blow. Durkee followed the 1929 third sacker with a base hit, McGehee doubled, and Elkins and Prior singled to complete the scoring. The first-year ball tossers chased two tallies home in the third inning and finished their scoring with a run in the fourth...
...diplomatic drama, from the Franco-Russian point of view for several reasons. Most important of these was the growing friendliness between Germany and England. France and Russia were afraid that if they waited too long England might remain neutral in case of war which would be a fatal blow to their hopes of certain victory over the Central Powers...