Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow came during the worst spell of winter within the memory of most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...
...death was a particularly hard blow to Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison, whose parliamentary secretary she had been when Morrison was Minister of Home Security in the War Cabinet. Prime Minister Clement Attlee brought the news to him in a hospital where Morrison has lain for three weeks waiting for a blood clot in his leg to dissolve. Said Attlee: "This will just make everything a hell of a lot more difficult...
...exclusion of any other type of news. These papers have a total circulation of 1,900,000 in a city of 2,300,000, leaving little room for news coverage of national and international events. The result of this topic monopoly is that each day Bostonians can quote a blow-by-blow description of any one of six different front page crimes, but can tell you little else except that Lake Success is in New York State and that Moscow is cold...
...piles, through unprecedentedly high water. Somehow, without modern diving equipment, timber superstructure had to be fastened to piles as much as 30 feet under water. Again the coolies' bitter strength saved the day. Local rivermen dove in, swam down for 80 seconds, drove spikes with hand hammers, a blow or two at each dive, until all were securely in place...
...week's end the still-bewildered Guild announced that its strike was still on, against whoever tried to resume publication. Yet national Guild leaders knew that they had suffered a major blow. They had pulled the trigger on Dave Stern, and the gun had backfired...