Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first round (in which Zale knocked him sprawling with another left), bewildered Rocky was dazed and bleeding. Through the second round, Rocky snarled savagely, but it was the snarl of a wounded animal. At 1:08 of the third round, Zale landed the knockout blow, another sizzling left. Rocky fell flat on his back and lay very still...
Just how could that be arranged? The committee offered one suggestion: that the U.N. secretariat be given more money (amount unspecified) to blow U.N.'s horn. The committee recommendations called for more U.N. movies; more U.N. radio programs; more U.N. reports in more languages; more U.N. information centers throughout the world, and the establishment of a worldwide U.N. press...
...latest blow came with a new suite for string quartet, based on Panamanian folk music. It was given a first performance last fortnight in Los Angeles, but the Los Angeles critics were not there; they had to cover the Ojai (Calif.) music festival where Stravinsky was the guest of honor. What's more, the area around the Still concert was roped off to traffic because of some relay races at the nearby Coliseum. Conditions were not ideal for a premiere, but listeners who struggled in found it worth the effort...
...will no longer hold union shop elections in states which outlaw it. Such NLRB elections, the majority decided, "would lead only to the circumvention and frustration of State law." For labor leaders who rely on the union shop device to control and hold their memberships, it was a hard blow...
...Another blow was a boost in admission prices. But mostly the fans grumbled to each other that baseball games in Ebbets Field no longer even looked very much like baseball: the games dragged, the pitching was terrible, the Dodger line-up was forever shifting and changing, team morale was drooping...