Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raja had come up to London from his servantless Berkshire cottage, where he has to get on his knees to blow up the fire. The Ranee was in London, celebrating at Giro's with their three pretty daughters. In the House of Commons came an announcement. Ailing, 71 -year-old Sir Charles Vyner Brooke had decided to cede his Sarawak state to Great Britain for one million pounds...
...Many Died? The magnitude of the disaster that befell Hiroshima was only slowly pieced together in my mind. As a result of the explosion, almost the entire city was destroyed at a single blow. The small Japanese houses in a diameter of five kilometers collapsed or were blown away. Those in the houses were buried in the ruins. Those in the open sustained burns. Fires spread rapidly. The heat which rose from the ground created a whirlwind which spread the fire throughout the whole city. As much as six kilometers from the center of the explosion, all houses were damaged...
Thousands of wounded who died later could doubtless have been rescued, but rescue work in a catastrophe of this magnitude had not been envisioned. Since the whole city had been knocked out at a blow, everything which had been prepared for emergency work was lost. Those who received good care slowly healed of their burns. There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly. Some who had only small external wounds died within a week or later, after an inflammation of the pharynx and oral cavity. There cannot be any doubt that the bomb...
...Then came the blow. MPs swooped down on the nuns' shack. Food, clothing and bedding were confiscated. At the provost marshal's office the bewildered priest was grilled for the names of his benefactors. The Engineer lieutenant and two enlisted men, awaiting a ship at Nagoya to take them home for Christmas, were ordered back to Matsuyama for an investigation and possible court-martial. The entire Engineer Battalion was restricted...
Nobody (except Stalin) could say just what Beria's replacement meant, UNO delegates saw a connection with Vice Commissar Vishinsky's unexplained absence from London. Was the Red Army about to blow its top? President Mikhail Kalinin had publicly admitted it would be tough to keep returning soldiers down on the farm (TIME, Nov. 19). Some observers guessed that Trouble Shooter Beria had been given the job of holding down discontent...