Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Hereford: "If Rotary wants to leave its past policy of inspiring individual Rotarians to active support of outside peace movements, we will be playing with fire. If Rotary splits into parties with national points of view, what will be left? The resolution is full of dynamite-apt to blow up the whole spirit of Rotary fellowship...
...controlled fury. "People may say we are acting from cowardice," he growled. "We, as trustees of the people, ought to remember that if there be war in this country-I mean nearer than the Mediterranean-they will pay for it on the first night with their lives! . . . The first blow may come on the day that Sanctions are applied against an aggressor...
Discontinuance of the School of Regional Planning is an unmistaklable blow to Harvard's hopes and plans of achievement in the Increasingly important field of government service. We feel very strongly that the University has failed to realize the fundamental interrelation of the physical, social, and economic aspects of government...
...Hello, Lou!" He repeated salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election. Verify by Rainbow Room attendants who picked up Wedemar and put him in elevator. I returned to table, made brief speech, no diner knew of unfortunate happening. Disparity in weights, yes. My suggestion to Wedemar that next time...
...fallen in love (seriously, this time) with an Indian lass, and she with him. Her stern parent, in view of Jimmy's uncertain social position, frowned on the match, and a blackguard named Montenegro, an even harder case than Jimmy, married the girl. It was a blow to Jimmy but he went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded as a man of property. But by then law & order had begun to move into the interior; property claims had to be legally recorded...