Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every able-bodied citizen lugged the bags to the levee, the river kept rising. Suddenly, everybody knew Grand Tower was going to have a "duck drownder." People stacked furniture in upper stories, took cattle and chickens to the high pasture near the cemetery, and waited "for her to blow." At dusk one night last week, she blew...
Under a paralyzing blow to the jaw, Jimmy Doyle's body stiffened, and he fell backwards as though his heels were hinged to the floor. With what was left of instinct he fumbled blindly for the ropes, brushed them with clumsy gloves, and lay still. The bell rang and the round ended as the referee's count reached nine. Jimrny Doyle's handlers went to work with cold water and smelling salts. But Boxer Doyle fought no more...
...terms of U.A.W. politics, the plan was a triumph for Dick Leonard, and a blow to U.A.W.'s President Walter Reuther, whom Leonard has opposed. (Leonard has been a supporter of ex-President R. J. Thomas.) In addition to pensions, the equivalent of about a 15?-an-hour raise, Leonard got a 7?-an-hour increase in wages for Ford workers. The U.A.W. expects the Ford plan to become a model for the industry...
...latest blow struck in the name of the sanctity of the American way of life, the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently approved a rider which will prohibit the use of any GI Bill educational funds to Communists, Communist sympathizers, or anyone whose allegiance is to a nation "subservient" to Russia. If this should become law, no longer might American colleges be burdened with government-financed veterans who are subversive in the eyes of Parnell Thomas and other defenders of the democratic tradition...
G.W.T.W. Near Sterling, Colo., Farmer Marvin Felzein & family drove 120 miles to look over some tornado damage, got back home to find that another big blow had meanwhile blown their house away...