Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stooped man with hollow cheeks and a potbelly came out from behind the bookstacks, where he had spent most of his life, and kidnaped a state. Never before or after did he fire a gun or throw a bomb or raise his slim-fingered hands to strike a blow. In his name, nevertheless, more men have been slaughtered than in Attila's. His name was Lenin...
France Spain received a diplomatic blow as the United Nations Political Committee reaffirmed a Soviet-sponsored resolution that calls on U.N. members to withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid and for the Security Council to act if Spain did not establish a democratic regime in a "reasonable" time...
...famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates and touching off great houses along the shore...
...resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
...outlawing of the party and the ousting of Communists from Congress. That had been González plan of several weeks ago. But not all Chileans wanted to be as tough as their volatile President. The Socialists, in Chile no friends of Communists, opposed outlawing the party, as a blow to civil liberties. Pink-cheeked old Senate President Arturo Alessandri, a Liberal, twice Chile's President and still a great power in politics, let it be known that he was against the idea...