Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before it was delivered to Congress and the Supreme Court. He beamed at newshawks with evident exuberance. He fairly smacked his lips over his adroit phrasing, revealing to the Press by intonation and ironic interjection his exhilaration over the most daring stroke he had yet attempted: his long-awaited blow to break the deadlock between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
...Parran used his installation as president of the American Public Health Association in New Orleans to blow the storm higher (TIME, Oct. 26). Between Christmas and New Year's he called some 600 public health officers and social hygienists, including Dr. Snow, to Washington, let them know that he had $10,000,000 to help them beat the venereal problem, let them urge him to ask Congress for $15,000,000 more...
...Roosevelt's remarks, as they apply to district courts, and to a lesser extent to the circuit courts of appeal, are true as gospel. Yet to induce from the bad conditions prevalent in the lower courts that the top court needs remodeling is not only illogical: it is a blow to the hopes of all who are working towards a really effective judicial reform...
After they left Madagascar and headed east across the Indian Ocean the Russians daily expected an attack, but it was not until they were only three days from their goal, Vladivostok, that the blow fell. By that time they were in such a fatalistic frame of mind that the battle was almost a relief. Rozhestvensky's plan was rigidly simple-to force his column, battleships in the lead, through the Straits of Tsushima, head for Vladivostok. Since Togo's average speed was six knots faster, he had no trouble heading off the Russian column, kept pounding each leading...
Back in America he aided Jefferson in the Louisiana Purchase, tinkered with his bridge models, fell out with his few remaining friends, suffered his worst blow when the election-supervisors at New Rochelle barred him from voting, called him an alien. He moved to Greenwich Village, died there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool...