Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth rise: Gilbert's temper was as full of spikes as a bag of nails, his rehearsals long and terrifying. Once, when a player warmly urged his untalented mistress on Gilbert for a star part, Gilbert turned to a friend, said: "The fellow's obviously trying to blow his own strumpet...
Like most underpaid reporters, Joe was a revolutionist. Colleagues remember the time when they upended the assistant managing editor and spanked him. They especially remember Joe rushing up with one ham-hand raised, a revolutionist's look in his eye, to strike a blow against authority. He met and married bustling Betty Robbins, who was a $15-a-week librarian in the Journal morgue. They quit the paper and Joe went freelancing...
...infrequent clouds have a bright blue-and-silver lining, the city fathers spent 50,000,000 francs ($419,800) to put as amusing a face as possible on France's current history. One giant mask in this year's annual carnival (see cut) represented the 1940 German knockout blow, another Occupation's heavy hand, a third the joys and hopes of Liberation. A fourth was labeled "OÙ va t'on?" (Where do we go from here?). That one symbolized the France which last week teetered ominously between fresh hope and fresh danger...
...cold will soon disappear,' he said, 'and there is nothing in this situation which a day of spring sunshine?and a compromise or two?will not blow away...
...were in the first week of The Crisis, but millions were. Every Briton had his own personal crisis as the underlying fact of his nation's woefully low coal production was brought to a head by mean, frosty, snowy, windy weather. The Crisis itself had been a stunning blow (TIME, Feb. 17). Now, as it deepened, it was worse in many ways than the blitz at its worst: it hit everybody. The Government extended its five-hour domestic power switchoff and blackout of cities, villages, industries from Land's End to John o' Groats...