Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have never taken Malthus' theory too literally, it was a useful tool to frighten farmers into soil conservation. For this reason, those of us who are crusading for conservation believe that your analysis of William Vogt's theories, while essentially sound and correct, will be a damaging blow. Farmers will now sleep late, plow up and down the hill. Most of them have to be frightened into action, and now our bogie man is dead by the hand of TIME...
...Sunday Times's excited conclusion that Crusade in Europe is "a blow ... at British-American friendship" came a soft-gloved slap by Lord Ismay, who was Winston Churchill's chief of staff. In London's Daily Telegraph Lord Ismay wrote: "Those who were privileged to serve with Eisenhower or under him, will remember him for all time as a grand fighter, a great American, and a sincere, generous-hearted friend of Great Britain. On this there can be no argument...
...white and gold paint, and to Boston's fond eye, as slick as a schoolmarm's leg. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1898, many families were returning to Maine after holiday visits to Boston. Despite storm warnings, the skipper decided he could make Portland ahead of the blow. Shortly after dark, with 176 people aboard, he cast off. The Portland disappeared down the channel into a swirl of snow...
With two potent newcomers flanking veteran Captain Dave key on the first line, the Crimson should have one of its strongest offenses in years. At right wing is Bill Garrity, one-time all-scholastic whose ineligibility last season was a big blow. Performing at left wing will be big Jack Carman, last year's freshman standout and a Jayvee football tackle this fall. Car man has only had time for five ice workouts, but is ready...
Time was, when people heard an explosion, they just knew it was something big. The old gas tank out in Everett couldn't last forever, and the fireworks factory in Waltham, well, it was only common sense to expect that to blow sky high, and there were those manhole covers in South Boston, always popping off and scaring a lot of honest people. Yes-sir, those were the days when a bang meant trouble...