Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard Blow. In Windsor, Ont., a tornado half wrecked George Mekita's home, whisked away a policy against wind damage...
...Four's decision to internationalize Trieste and give Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia was a far greater blow to the Italians in Italy than to the Italians in Trieste. Where people can see Tito troops by going a couple of miles to the boundary between Zone A (Anglo-American control) and Zone B (Yugoslav control), patriotism is tempered by practical considerations. Most of the 270,000 Italians in Trieste, after expressing their dislike of Slavs and Communists...
Tories had nothing to sing about either. Said a realistic young Conservative M.P. over his dinner of creamed chicken and peas (on the a la carte section of Labor's new House of Commons menu): "It's been a bit of a blow to the Government . . . but I don't know that it has given us Tories much more hope...
...thunderstorm begins with a tremendous uprush of air, which rises to 16,000 feet or more. As the storm mounts in intensity, the winds reverse themselves, blow downward. Heavy rain is no measure of a storm's violence; the wildest gusts often grow in rainless thunderheads or even in harmless looking clouds...
...comet collision would be a cream-puff blow compared with an encounter between the earth and an asteroid. These small bodies, believed to be pieces of a planet once located between Mars and Jupiter, have highly eccentric orbits and often shoot close to the earth. In 1937 a small asteroid, Hermes, missed the earth by only 500,000 miles - a bare stone's throw as interplanetary space is reckoned...