Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would react upon your paper in that "news" might become scarce over night. On the other hand, picture the handicaps I might be forced to labor under, in any plans to destroy Wall Street: to lower the value of Florida real estate by a bombing raid and alas, worst blow of all, to deprive the Hearst publications and the fair State of California of the chance to shout "We told you so!" Fair play, mates...
...been supplied by him with mimeographed copies of a plan of his own devising. The Olberg plan: one of the Institute's professors was to make up in the chemical laboratory bombs which students were to explode when reviewed by Stalin in Moscow on May Day 1936, blow up themselves and the entire Soviet Government who would be on the platform...
...stars be sexy but not immoral. Hollywood's most worried man was old Sam Goldwyn, in whose Dodsworth Miss Astor is currently cast as the expatriate seductress. Guarding Miss Astor from newshawks, the Goldwyn pressagents explained: "Mary is a trouper, but you never can tell. She might 'blow up' under pressure if we let people see her and then where would...
...Asturian miners in the revolution of 1934. Although some 50 characters are introduced, most of the violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with the friend he had betrayed, and dies as one of the leaders in the Asturian revolt...
...Federal Court order for the liquidation of New Hampshire's leading industry, while it has been expected, is nonetheless a severe blow to our State and to our principal city. . . . Now that it has come we must and will face the situation which it presents and rally our courage and our resources to replace this loss to our industrial activities...