Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, Moscow was confident, Berlin worried. Said one Russian commentator: "The present situation on the Soviet-German front can be called a pause before a new, annihilating blow at the enemy. This offensive will be directed . . . at Germany's vital-centers." Chimed in a Berlin spokesman: the Russian winter offensive is "directly imminent. ... It is not a real calm; it is the quiet before the storm...
...habit of drying it and hanging it up with a string to determine the direction of coming gales. He hung a Seevarkie in a draft-free room in his aquarium. The nose of the dead, free-swinging fish pointed in a certain direction. Sure enough, winds began to blow from the same direction outdoors shortly thereafter...
...broad, strong fist, securing the whole left flank of the Allied line. The Berlin radio asserted that Montgomery was mounting a new attack against Arnhem, had already dropped "sabotage parachutists" north of the celebrated bridge. From Aachen to Arnhem, the Germans dug in deeper, and waited for the big blow...
...over southeast Asia, Major Walter V. Radovich began to think about his 18-months-old son - and also about God. The Major was a crack fighter pilot. He had shot down four Jap planes, had flown through a defile not much wider than his plane's wings to blow up an enemy munition train, had won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But there was something on the Major's conscience which would give him no rest...
...Like the Rusts, machinery manufacturers are convinced that cotton mechanization is just over the horizon. Last week John Rust, more impressed than he was in 1935 with the social enormity of his invention, said he was still determined to establish a foundation out of his earnings to soften the blow for cotton hands...