Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Talk like this was something to which the nation usually listened uneasily. Many a citizen remembered the Great Depression as a more brutal experience than the Great War. But in last week's shade-tree-and-hammock weather, nobody was willing to believe that things were going to blow up, either at home or abroad, the day after tomorrow...
Sample smash: an arsenic atom (atomic weight: 75) had 21 particles knocked off by a single blow, and was reduced to radioactive cobalt (atomic weight: 54). When the new cyclotron bombarded an oxygen atom (atomic weight: 16) with neutrons, the light atom split into five pieces (see cut; the arrows point to the five-way split of the oxygen atom, the streaks indicate the path of atomic chips...
...which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often an excuse for nonparticipation in public life. The common-garden myth of toleration goes about like this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where the commonsensical common man will always ultimately take his stand. The trouble is that certain fascist "extremes" have lately had a curious...
Molotov had dealt his French comrades, and Communists everywhere, a cruel blow. The Moscow press offered hollow comfort by declaring that the long-expected U.S. depression was at hand, that the Marshall Plan was merely an attempt to capture markets for the U.S. But Izvestia reminded world Communism of the larger, long-range issues. At Monticello last week, Harry Truman had in effect declared that there was an ideological war on between democratic philosophy and its totalitarian enemies. Izvestia belligerently agreed: "The greatest achievement of world culture-Leninism-illuminates our road. ... A fighting, militant ideology, irreconcilable and merciless...
Rose retorted in the unabashed and irreverent prose that has won him more newspaper clients than most pundits have. "It's true ... I blow an occasional soap bubble while on the soap box. But what's wrong with that? . . . I've often heard more sensible talk in a barber shop than I've read in a week's issue of the Congressional Record...