Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long voyage home Franklin Roosevelt, sunning himself on the cruiser's deck, had made a decision to report to Congress on Yalta, in person and as soon as possible. Except for the blow of Pa Watson's death, he had returned from the Crimea refreshed in body, mind and spirit. Thirty-six hours after his return, he went to the House chamber...
...During a pompous colonel's illustrated lecture on aircraft recognition, a soldier slips in a blow-up of a scantily clad girl, converting the lecture into a bedlam of double-entendres ("This model is stripped for action...
...Monty demanded was in place, the last bit of the strategic jigsaw ready to fall into place. Monty could sound the call. In an order of the day he steamed up his Twenty-first Army Group: "We stand ready for the last round. . . . We will go for the knockout blow...
...Overcast. The Japs claimed to have known, two days in advance, that the blow was coming. But they were strangely unprepared when the white-starred fighters dropped out of the overcast above each of the main airfields around Tokyo and tore across the strips, strafing scores of enemy planes still aground. Dive bombers screamed down almost vertically; Avengers roared in at a steep glide, each with a 2,000-lb. bomb. The Jap air bases erupted flames and smoke...
...Japs knew how vital it was to U.S. forces to capture Iwo. They knew what a blow its loss would be to the defense of Japan. So they packed Iwo with 10,000 to 15,000 men, with casemated heavy coastal guns, well-sited antiaircraft guns, machine-gun nests hewn out of the rock...