Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elections still were a heavy blow to the Labor Party. Coming on top of the rebellion in Labor's London fortress last month, they furnished impressive evidence that the Tories had found their feet, that the Socialists faced the battle of their lives in the general elections next year. Said Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips in sour understatement: "Let us face the facts. [The] results are disappointing...
...artillery could get into position to block the Whangpoo at Woosung, Shanghai would be cut off from the major source of its food, the only source of its coal, fuel oil and raw materials for its factories. Only one question remained: Would the Reds unleash a knockout blow, or would they try to starve the city out? Shanghailanders, lying awake through the long nights, listened to the gunfire and the frenzied barking of frightened dogs in the streets, and waited wearily for the answer...
They had plenty to dig. French Jazzman Hugues Panassié had been applauded for bringing Louis Armstrong to blow at his Nice festival last year (TIME, March 8, 1948), but criticized for leaving out U.S. boppers. For this year's International Jazz Festival, rival Jazzman Charles Delaunay was playing it safe by inviting both the bop artists and two-beat specialists from half a dozen European countries and the U.S. The French radio blared out the goings-on for ten days...
Cambridge City Councilman Hyman Pill struck his traditional blow for the Man in the Street yesterday. Councilman Pill issued his fifteenth annual appeal that the city manager purchase land near police headquarters for construction of a public comfort station...
...over the country, workers and clerks spilled into the streets and squares, wearing the Torinos' badge encircled in black crepe. Pope Pius XII sent a message of condolence to the players' families. Mourned President Luigi Einaudi: "Horrifying disaster . . . Harsh blow for the entire nation...