Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball used was generally quite soft, and its shape was nearer to being round than it is today. With passing confined to a rare lateral, a large, hard pigskin was not needed. The team would lace and blow up the ball just before the game and often they had a long, difficult time doing it to their satisfaction. Woodman, one of the five surviving members of the team of '87, remembers his difficulties preparing the pigskin with pained amusements...
...Federal anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, and fair employment practices legislation; for Federal and State laws to prevent segregation or discrimination in schools, theaters, trains, and hotels; and for State laws against restrictive real estate covenants. On the surface, the committee's recommendations would appear to be a major blow in behalf of civil liberties...
...Dick Harlow's third year of coaching in Cambridge, the Varsity eleven suffered what was considered a catastrophic blow. Three regulars were injured going into the Army game and could not play. The Cadets won that game 7 to 6. They were almost overpowered by a savage Crimson attack but capitalized on two fumbles to score their payoff touchdown...
...delegates had little chance to blow off steam until Phil Murray's nomination for re-election to his eighth term as president. They voted him in by acclamation and gave him 20 minutes' worth of howling, snake-dancing and table-thumping. Then Murray did some thumping of his own for price controls and smacked the Government for being "definitely derelict" in its duties. Later he was asked if he meant to include Harry Truman in his criticism. He did. Said Murray: "In this country we can criticize whom we choose, when we choose...
...remained for Harvard, however, to strike the last blow in the pre-war battle between the Crimson and the Green, when a 1941 pre-game rally burned to a cinder an effigy on an Indian...