Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelvemonth built a labor organization the equal of the old A. F. of L. in size and power, its superior in leadership. The measure of his achievement is that his two runners-up were his two visa-vis : 1) Chairman Myron Charles Taylor who without a blow being struck negotiated for the unionization of great U. S. Steel Corp. and 2) President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel who battled John L. Lewis to the last ditch and largely prevented the complete unionization of the steel industry...
...scratch. 'No, you son of a bitch,' said Sullivan, heaving fluidly in the general direction of Jake. 'Stand up and fight!' Jake stood up, and stepped on John's foot with his ⅛-inch spikes, and Sullivan sent him sprawling with a chopping, sledgehammer blow on the jugular vein. John L. went on to win-in the seventy-fifth round...
...bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal fields apparently is such that little attention is paid to shootings or murders. Last month 41 Progressive Unionists and sympathizers were brought to trial in Springfield, Ill. on Federal charges of conspiring to blow up trains and thus interfere with 1) the mails and 2) interstate commerce. Four of the defendants were dismissed, another had a heart attack. Last week a jury found the rest guilty on both counts. The maximum penalty is four years in the penitentiary and total fines of $20,000 each...
Incidents such as the sinking last fortnight of the Panay by Japanese aircraft are among the immediate causes of wars. But last week the incident aroused no outcry, no demand in Congress or the press that the U. S. Navy immediately steam across the Pacific to blow Tokyo off the map. What was remarkable was that it produced precisely the opposite effect. While the State Department was engaged in sending the sharpest notes since the World War, reaction of the U. S. generally was alarm, not that Japan would go unpunished, but that the offense might somehow involve...
...large teeth having resemblance in various characters to several of the most primitive human types." The position of the ear and lower jaw socket were human, the absence of a well-developed mastoid process "very apelike." The back of the skull was missing, as though smashed in by a blow...