Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Godse suddenly pulled out a tiny Beretta automatic pistol. He fired three times. One bullet ripped into Gandhi's chest, two into his belly. With hands folded, as if welcoming the blow, in the gesture that is both the Hindu greeting and the Christian attitude of prayer, Gandhi fell backward. He murmured, "Ai Ram, Ai Ram" (0 Rama, 0 Rama), in invocation to the gentle hero of the Hindu pantheon, Gandhi's favorite...
After an all-night session of the Assembly, René Mayer partly appeased the Socialists. He proposed, as a blow at black marketeers, to withdraw all 5,000-franc notes from circulation. The balky Socialists swung into line. The Assembly adjourned...
...were about to perish for lack of air," said Finance Minister Rene Mayer last week. "We had to smash the window with a single blow." Mayer chiefly meant that, without devaluation of the franc (TIME, Feb. 2), French recovery would have been stifled through inability to sell goods abroad. But for a few days last week, Rene Mayer and Premier Robert Schuman had French Socialists at their throats. As advocates of dirigisme (directed economy), Socialists did not like the breeze of free enterprise that threatened to blow through the smashed window...
Wall Street brokers seldom take long lunches. They are afraid something will happen while they're out. Last week, most of them were just going to lunch when the day's blow struck. A storm of selling hit the market, driving down prices. By the 3 p.m. closing, the Dow-Jones industrial average was down 1.29 points. Next day the market went down again. Through the week, it continued to drop. At week's end, the average was down 5.57 points, and some $2.5 billion in stock values had been wiped out. All the market...
Inflater. Chicago's Leaf Brands, Inc. began marketing bubble gum in colors-red, yellow, blue. By chewing two or three pieces of "Rain-bio" at the same time, said the announcement, children will be able to blow bubbles "in all the delicious colors of the rainbow...