Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it was Lewis' turn to blow up, and he did it handsomely. In a letter that would fire an oyster, he told Krug: "Your attention was again directed . . . to the brutal, 54-hour schedule of men laboring in the bowels of the earth. . . . You cavalierly now propose a 60-day freeze. . . . Your proposal ... is sheer folly and empty platitude. . . . You now, at the last hour of the last day yield to the blandishments and soothing siren voice of the operators and seek to place the United Mine Workers of America between Scylla and Charybdis. This course...
...more blow at Wyatt's dying program. As the President left on a vacation without making a decision, Washington dopesters gave odds that Wyatt would not get his money and that his emergency housing program was dead...
...most telling blow to the reeling Democrats was the breakdown of their big-city machines...
...first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. The prospect: a continuation of the present coalition government, in which the MRP (Catholic progressives) now leads the Communists by a slight margin, with the Socialists third. The plain people were not much agitated; the winter winds were beginning to blow in earnest around their scantily heated houses. They were much more interested in coal than in coalition...
...Manhattan, where the courts were trying to decide whether the gamy Memoirs of Hecate County was indecent, Author Edmund Wilson suffered a really staggering blow. One judge's word for the book: "ponderous...