Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed his own realization that more was needed. Said he: "Our people yearn to move to higher ground, to find a common purpose in the finer things which unite us ... The unity we seek is more than material. Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world, physically, apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces, to bind up its wounds, to make a good society, a community of men of good will that fits our dreams...
...First Blow. On Tuesday, the Dewey machine stepped up its power. It jolted the opposition with the first real blow. Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin announced that he had withdrawn as a favorite-son candidate and would not only vote for Dewey on the first ballot but make the nominating speech...
...peace is to be strong, to act with other great freedom-loving nations, and to make it plain to the aggressor, while time remains, that we should bring the world against him, and defend ourselves and our cause by every means should he strike the felon's blow. I cannot guarantee that even a firm and resolute course will ward off the dangers . . . but I am sure that such a course is not merely the best but the only chance of preventing a third...
...Bitterest Blow." On the beach at Kfar Vitkin, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...
...Down ..." Correspondents and U.N. observers had been watching from deck chairs on the balcony of the beachside Kaete Dan Hotel. Many departed hastily, expecting the Altalena to blow up. Other civilians were evacuated from the waterfront. But boxes of ammunition went off without serious damage. Next morning the Altalena was a smoldering hull...