Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Lincoln-Washington battalion of Americans suffered its heaviest blow of the war. Caught behind the enemy lines as the Rightists smashed through, the battalion tried to fight its way back in small groups. Nine men attempted to swim the swift Ebro River, three got across. At week's end only 150 of the 450 Americans had been accounted...
Ship of the Line begins with a glimpse of Hornblower becalmed at home-bored with his dowdy wife, pawning his sword to get money for ship stores, worried about manning and outfitting his new command, the two-decker Sutherland- but the winds of romance blow hard as soon as he is out of sight of land. Convoying ships of the East India Co., Hornblower drives off two French raiders (incidentally conquering his secret shame, seasickness), accepts the grateful tributes of the merchantmen, then outrages them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic...
Seven hundred and eighty-third deputy inspector Murphy J. Murphy, of the Post Office Department delivered another telling blow when he banned Lampy from the mails. "Such smut!" he stormed. "Imagine publishing a parody of 'Breezy Stories'! Wit pitch-as, too. Geez, wot nudes, wot frivolity. It stinks. Enough is enough...
Reader Hoffman has caught TIME a glancing blow on the glabella...
...went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip off all a captive's buttons, send him home holding up his pants. One strategist discovers that the way to fix that is to fight without clothes until a war chest of replacement buttons can be accumulated. The children discover what an angry futility...