Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinary mortals are sweltering these days, but one group of undergraduates already is preparing for snow. Though Bores has yet to blow, the Ski Club has started mapping our its plan of operations for the winter...
Some housewives, in an extremely irritable mood about food anyhow, used the plan as an excuse to blow off steam. Millions cried: "I haven't money enough to buy meat or poultry every day anyhow, so what difference does it make...
...believe that Britain will rise again with even higher influence in the world than she now exercises. I work for the revival of a united Europe. I am sure that the English-speaking world can weather all the storms that blow. And that above all these, a world instrument, in Al Smith's words, "to weld the democracies together" can be erected which will be all-powerful so long as it is founded on freedom, justice and mercy-and is well armed...
...attacking at night, hiding in villages and resting in the day time. . . . They are attempting to bring down the Government not by destroying its armed forces but by wrecking the economic life of the country. Hence, they do not hesitate to burn towns and villages, destroy railroads . . . and blow up industrial installations, such as power plants, which they cannot carry away...
...California, just about the only thing its thousands of students have in common is Robert Gordon Sproul. The lonely bigness of Berkeley helps to explain why the Cal rooting section* at football games is not only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year's Big Game, 25-6, disgruntled Cal rooters tore...