Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beneath the frown of Dictator-Premier Benito Mussolini one Fascist after another arose to find only words of praise upon his tongue: "A great step forward . . . Fascist unity of Labor, Capital and the State ... a death blow to the Marxian theory of class struggle...
...action gathers momentum with every gesture until the climax is reached with Spoofy's kidnapping of his own child and the robbing of his own safe. A blow on the head finally restores his memory and clears him and his implicated confederates of all blame...
...TIME, Oct. 26). One month ago it chronicled the "promotion" of handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to the rank of Queen, adding that a royal birth, the first in Siam for 32 years, was shortly expected (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week it deplored amid bitter lamentations a swift two-edged blow of fate...
Well might the deputies howl. The majority of them, however, as loyal Fascists, howled for the bill, not against it. Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, bellowed: "I exult in the bill as a death blow to the liberal democratic system of government!" Another prominent Fascist cried: "It transfers sovereignty from the People, a mere mass of ignorant beings, to the Nation, juridically organized in the State...
...racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship of the East. All the way the rangy man (James Loucks, Syracuse) had been pressing the runner in crimson (Willard L. Tibbets, Harvard). But now, as he turned his head, Tibbets saw Loucks blow a bead of sweat from the end of his nose, lift his chin and drink a great gulp of air. Yes, in another moment Loucks would sprint. Tibbets could see the finish, the crowd around the tape. It was just too far away; if he let himself...