Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe fails to recover, the peoples of these countries might be driven to the philosophy of despair-the philosophy which contends that their basic wants can be met only by the surrender of their basic rights to totalitarian control. Such a turn of events would constitute a shattering blow to peace and stability in the world. It might well compel us to modify our own economic system and to forgo, for the sake of our own security, the enjoyment of many of our freedoms and privileges...
Then Bridges' men got another blow. George Aguiar, a member of the legislature from the island of Kauai, resigned from the territorial Democratic Party, charged that its control on Kauai was in the hands of I.L.W.U. straw bosses. He joined Ignacio's revolt...
Such occurrences, not always with so happy an ending, happen daily. Meanwhile, Palestine's people live on edge, wait for the next blow from either side. This year Jews and Arabs will stay inside their respective fortified areas as the rest of the world celebrates the 1947 anniversary of the birth of the Prince of Peace. The bright star which guided the Wise Men to the Manger will probably be outshone by the Very lights which British troops in Jerusalem's Old City send up through the long hours of night to spot rooftop snipers...
...made the cellos repeat and repeat the melting cello quartet passage that had troubled him 60 years before, and when their playing of it did not suit him, he turned to the cellists with a look of contained rage that was as effective as a blow-off would have been. Other times, in dissatisfaction, he slapped his baton fitfully against his trouser...
Princeten-bred Wylie's article, which appeared in the December issue of a uation-wide woman's magazine, struck a final blow by insisting that a girl at college "loses four of the years that are biologically best for bearing children...