Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before the Okinawa garrison will have adequate housing. (Congress has so far appropriated $58 million...
...abso lute weapon it has been said to be. It is not even as devastating as popularly supposed, says Bush. The costs of manufacturing and of delivering it would be so vast that they might well exhaust a nation before it had struck a winning blow...
...Chicago Deadline" has flashbacks galore, in which we see the girl, played by Miss Reed, as Life strikes her one blow after another. She gets mixed up with gangsters and a corrupt bank president, until she finally meets her untimely end in the fly-blown rooming house where reporter Ladd first sees...
...Kempthorn's 'accident' came from a deliberate blow on the head which was even put on the air by one of the announcers, he added...
...last month that it was pulling its headquarters out of Cambridge in favor of a $6,000,000 Lever House on New York's Park Avenue, many people around Cambridge-thinking of the nation's "slight economic recession"-feared that the city's industrial position had suffered its worst blow in years...