Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earning on honest living, and every evening they get out of bed, yawn, and set out for a night with the nets. We found they were very economical fishermen to boot. When a Dutch fisher man reaches his favorite fish hole, he generally shinnies up the mast and blows out all his riding lights to save kerosene. This means that at any moment the erstwhile yachtsman is prone to destroy the means of a fisherman's livelihood with a sharp blow below the waterline...
...ready to strike his first blow. March called on Heineman in Madrid and warned that he had better let him take over Barcelona Traction, in return for a minority interest, or suffer the consequences. Heineman refused...
...buzzing tenseness following Washington's atom-bomb announcement, Vishinsky's speech lacked even the bang of an old-fashioned blockbuster. It was sparked with the standard vituperation. The peace-loving U.S.S.R., cried Vishinsky, was "ready to answer . . . blow for blow" any threats of "the black array of warmongers" in the West. He called on the Assembly to 1) condemn Anglo-American warmongers, 2) impose an "unconditional prohibition of atomic weapons and . . . rigid international control," and 3) call upon the Big Five to sign "a pact for the strengthening of peace...
Last week, Juan March went again to Reus and struck the final blow. By authority of last year's bankruptcy decision, he led a meeting of Barcelona Traction creditors (i.e., himself, the principal bondholder) and appointed the requisite "syndicos" (his agents) to dispose of Barcelona's assets. Nobody doubted who would get them...
...stock market last week suffered its hardest blow this year. In one day's trading, sellers who were gloomy over the British devaluation and the threat of strikes drove the Dow-Jones industrial average down 3.38 points. But in the rest of the week, the market bounced right up again...