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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Clyde Reed to his constituents last week: "If the Marshall Plan should fail of passage . . . the Republican candidates in November would not carry a state east of Ohio or any state on the Pacific coast. Under such circumstances, defeat for the Republican Party in November would be a blow from which it would be very difficult to recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Unbruised | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...turning the story over to others in his 15-man Washington bureau, Chief Andrews set to digging it out himself. His dispassionate study of the case of "Mr. Blank" filled six columns of the Herald Tribune on Nov. 2. Factual as a cookie recipe, it struck a more telling blow for liberty than any arm-waving leftist could have landed, and it caused a change in State Department policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information, Please | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...recent agitation for a modern Student Activities Center has grown to the proportions of a filibuster. And hardly a voice is raised in Sanders' defense. Mixed in with the Bronx cheers are overtones of resentment about the University's attitude towards student theater groups. And as a final blow, Sanders' crealy physical condition evoked a stern warning from a state fire inspection official, who was reported to have called it "the worst fire hazard in the state of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

Once more it was a case of being overpowered in the opening minutes and never recovering from the initial blow. Dartmouth sank four of its total in the first ten minutes, before the Crimson adjusted itself to the fantastic speed and precision teamwork of the Riley-Morriam-Riley line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slashing Dartmouth Sextet Downs Outmanned Crimson by 10-5 Count | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

Unless the hockey team can rise to Olympian heights, tonight's 8:30 o'clock tilt with Dartmouth should be little more than the crowning blow to an already dismal week on the rink. Unable to produce against B.U. or Princeton, there seems little hope for the Crimson to beat a Big Green outfit that has won 15 games in 16 starts this season...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Fast Indian Skaters Stalk Crimson Scalps in Arena Embroglio Tonight | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

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