Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrieked a party newspaper Il Paesa. "The Feast of Us Others is being changed to the Feast of Them There . . . Them There are the people who argue only with 1,000 lira bills . . . people who would change into toothpaste advertising even the pictures of Raphael . . ." The Communists' final blow came when they discovered that the opposition had cornered all police permits for the feast. The police took the position that if the Communists and the anti-Communists both hold processions for the Madonna del Carmine, blood would probably flow in the streets. As gracefully as they could, the Communists...
...there is a still bigger reason for Asahi's unique position: its reputation for integrity. Says Chairman of the Board Chu Hasebe: "Asahi is like a big tree. It stands alone and conspicuous, where any wind can find and blow against it. We have had our friends and our enemies, but we have never distorted the facts for either...
Then the harsh blow fell. From 20th Century-Fox came word that Darryl Zanuck was toying with the idea of casting Tyrone Power as the Sheik. A producer at Monogram named Jan Grippo also announced that he would make a movie based on Valentino's life...
Last week, still thinking about the case of Barbara, Universal-International struck a blow for art (hip, thigh & bosom division). The studio's legal experts fashioned a new clause to go into all starlet contracts: for the first five years of her term, the starlet must yield to the company's right to make "reproductions of her physical likeness, leaving it to the discretion of publicity and advertising directors to determine what is a reasonable degree of exposure of her pulchritudinous assets . . ." As a sample of its discretion under the new charter, the studio pictured the assets...
...much as 100 miles high. The mounds seem to have some connection with sun spots (solar hurricanes), but they often appear before the spots break through the sun's surface and they persist long after the spots have disappeared. Around the peaks and valleys of these gaseous mountains blow winds whose speed may be greater than 300,000 m.p.h...