Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding jobs ranging from farming to advising the Government of Thailand on Economic Policy. In this Siamese job, he advocated for the inland regions of the country a corps of "junior doctors" to diagnose and prescribe medical treatment for easily-recognizable tropical diseases. This suggestion caused a tremendous blow-off, and was condemned as a plot to lower medical standards and kill helpless natives. Rumbles were heard even from American medical circles. "Five years later," Professor Zimmerman muses, "A large American medical foundation took over, instituted the plan, and got a big hand for it." Similarly, during the early days...
...throw in the sponge. Few U.S. Presidents have ever been jeered at the way Harry Truman was jeered at last week. New Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
...probably just as well that there are only four periods of fifteen minutes each in any one football game. If the spectacle on Soldiers Field Saturday had been prolonged very much whatever elation was felt when the final horn did blow would have evaporated into nothing. A big fresh team making hash out of a smaller tired team isn't much of a show, even for the Crimson cheering section . . . There was an uneasy feeling that this team, which, as everyone knows, doesn't run up 49-0 scores that belong to Texas couldn't have been a Harvard football...
...operated, found a calcium shell an eighth of an inch thick enclosing the heart sac. This heart shell had to be cracked apart with forceps. Apparently the result of internal bleeding caused by an old baseball blow under the heart (calcium deposits are often found in scar tissue), the casing had prevented the heart muscle from growing, had restricted blood circulation. By starving body tissues, it had stopped the boy's growth...
...asking ICC for the boost, which all the railroads want, New York Central's Gustav Metzman also painted a dark picture. Said Metzman: even with the increase, the New York -Central will lose $18,652,000 next year, will have no carryback credits to soften the blow. Reason: the costs of wages and materials of rail roads, and all industry, have soared since war's end far beyond estimates...