Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best of its practitioners insisted last week. "It ain't, but it could be. I look forward to the day when we'll have nothing but display on the main floor. Then we can really create atmosphere, using everything-fire, water, why, we could even blow up a hurricane...
...hoped to blow up a hurricane was 35-year-old Gene Moore, a dapper Manhattanite who works with 14 assistants in a cluttered hideaway at Fifth Avenue's sleek Bonwit Teller's. Every week Moore designs 21 new windows...
...loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
Died. Carlton K. Matson, 58, chief editorial writer of the Cleveland Press,' who, knowing that he had cancer, wrote about it to further a public attitude of frankness ("What I want to do is strike a blow against this mysterious, paralyzing hush-hush that surrounds every case of cancer"); of cancer; in Cleveland...
When Senator Taft recommended eliminating the T-E-W Bill from the special session last summer, he virtually threw away two years of legislative struggle to get an adequate housing law through Congress. Though not entirely responsible himself, his final blow added another subject to Truman's list of accusations at the "do-nothing" Congress...