Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tana and which may, by example, menace the British hegemony in Africa? Can he not realize that maintaining a strong and independent native African state and at the same time showing the rest of Africa that the white man's shoes may sometimes encase clay feet is a blow to the prestige of the dominating races in Africa that will cause Downing Street and the Foreign Office to break out in a rash of "incidents...
...Which blow knocked him unconscious...
...Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means of Sanctions and then civilizing Ethiopia in a community spirit...
...dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient, Louis stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...
...tracks by the sight of two speeding automobiles coming together at the intersection, by the sound of shrieking brakes, screeching tires. That was the last Rose Samanoff ever saw, ever heard. To avoid a collision, one of the cars swerved up on the sidewalk, struck her a deadly blow, turned over on its side...