Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sentiment v. Practicality. Some of the present, not-yet-departed great recorded their indignation. Cried learned Sir Arthur Salter (one of Oxford's two M.P.s): "It is a blow ... at learning and education . . . when many people . . . are asking what ... is going to be Socialist equality. Is it going to be a leveling down or a leveling up?" Snapped Sir Alan Patrick Herbert (the other Oxford M.P.) in a letter to the Times: "If we ... are so little thought of by our colleagues, I, at least, do not . . . feel warmly inclined for public service elsewhere." He resigned from the Board...
...will come next month, when leaders of individual unions meet. Already some unions had balked. Last week the huge Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions (3,000,000 members) was still insisting on a general wage increase. Said Communist Arthur Horner, general secretary of the Mineworkers' Union: "The first blow in the economic crisis must be struck at profits and luxury living, not at wages...
...CRIMSON competitions will be over before final exams in May, so if you're hankering to chat with deans, snap your lens, sell an ad, or blow off steam on a national or college topic, come down to the Crime tonight...
...first act of Peter Grimes, the applause was tentative. It came as something of a blow to the Metropolitan Opera audience to attend an opera written in English, only to discover that you still had to read the libretto to find out what they were singing about. But after the audience sat back and just listened to the music, as they do at operas sung in Italian and German, everything went better. At the final curtain, the Metropolitan's only new opera of the year got ten enthusiastic curtain calls...
...gossiped that many of those with inside information had taken advantage of the "stabilizing" to unload their holdings at the higher price. After K-F stopped buying, the stock started down. At $11, K-F had already lost over $460,000 on its stock. K-F had suffered another blow. It had tied up a good chunk of its ready cash in stock. With all the hue & cry over the stock, chances looked slim that K-F would soon be able to find new buyers at the same price to help it raise the $10,000,000 in new capital...