Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western reconciliation with Franco would be a serious blow to the West's moral position. Red propaganda would offer it as proof that Western democracy is fascism in disguise. These political liabilities of friendship with Franco seem to outweigh the advantage of advance agreement on bases...
Malcolm Holme's boys were really "up for this one. They struck the first blow by serenading the Cornell Fraternities and Sorarities in a sunrise tour from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Saturday morning immediately after an all-night busride from Cambridge...
...call of his race and the family which has reared him from birth in slavery. Educated, responsible, George, like Faust, has everything he could wish for except his soul. Hearing of the prospective revolution, he is unwilling to lend his support until he can be assured that the blow will come after his Master has left the city for the summer. But when at the last minute the Captain decides to stay, George is compelled to betray the plot. The militia are called, and Denmark Vesey, forsaken by all his "disciples," is left to await his own doom...
...riot of offensive football, in which young Arthur Valpey's debutante team forced the fight, struck the first blow, dazed a sound 7 1/2 point favorite, and stomped home with an opening day upset which sent its undergraduate contingent into a mass demonstration of delerium...
...many quarters this news will come as an unpleasant and unexpected blow. Only a short time after the Saltonstall Committee was set up, in the Spring of 1947, a Student Council poll showed that 98.2 per cent of the College favored a utilitarian memorial, and that 50.4 per cent specifically wished for an activities center. Thirty-seven out of 43 undergraduate groups endorsed such a project. From that Spring forward, the Council and other College groups have pushed for a home for displaced College organizations...