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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ancient Preachers | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Incantations & TNT. Volcanoes, on the other hand, are less mysterious and more dangerous. Though they are worshiped as goddesses and damned as hellholes, bubbling craters are really just safety valves, through which molten rock (magma) under the earth's skin can blow off steam from time to time. Volcanoes can be depended on to act up every so often; since 79 A.D., when Pompeii and Herculaneum were first buried, old Vesuvius has popped off about once every generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Shakers | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Premier Schuman's government decided that this hand had to be played alone if necessary because of the fall in exports. The squabble will not help ideas of West European unity along in the face of the worst economic crisis since 1932. But the worst blow will be dealt to the hope that the bank would replace the economic law of the jungle with international cooperation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kicking the Props | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

...husband says 'not too loud,' but I say 'blow like blazes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Owners | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...roads between Cambridge and Northampton aren't the only things that have turned the healthy Cantabrigian in to a sniveling wreck this week. Cambridge police, smashing a highly-integrated gambling ring, which has been organizing College sportsmen for high-finance green baizery, have dealt a tolling blow...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Baizy Gamesters Undaunted As Gendarmerie Takes Over | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

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