Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first severe blow fell with the arrest of twelve priests and six laymen, among them, Ivan Shalich, the Archbishop's secretary. The charge: collaboration with the Ustashi, terrorist organization of the Croat fascist Ante Pavelich. Then the prosecutor prepared Stepanic's indictment...
...dual selection for September (with Animal Farm-TIME, Feb. 4). Described by the publishers as a novel, The Sudden Guest is in fact little more than an elaborately contrived but not penetrating character study, with the East Coast hurricanes of 1938 and 1944 as background. The hurricanes blow an assortment of people into Miss Leckton's little world of servants, silverware and unearned income. She resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews...
...tackles are up in the air...the ends are out of this world. Harlow was served with a crippling blow on Friday when one of the two men he had picked as starters made a decision to quit the game in favor of academic efforts. 1942 letterman Pete Garland decided to concentrate on his chosen field of architecture, leaving the team in a procarious position...
Gonzalez, now 47, first got his fireworks reputation when, as a young champion of peoples' rights, he played cops & robbers with Dictator Carlos Ibañez' police. Arrested, he begged permission to blow his nose, instead sprinted two blocks to the Radical Club, where fellow members protected him. As late as last year, quick-tempered Sr. Gonzalez slung an inkwell at a fellow Senator in a congressional free...
...Spain, I.T. & T. weathered the Spanish civil war chiefly because Sosthenes Behn lived in the much-bombed I.T. & T. building all through the siege of Madrid. When the Loyalists announced that they were going to blow up the building before evacuating the city, Behn calmly informed them that he and his staff, including 6 U.S. citizens, would be meeting in the building at the time set for the blast. Rather than antagonize the U.S., the Loyalists spared the building. Last year, Behn disposed of the company to the Franco Government for $88.1 million in Spanish Government bonds and cash...