Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the headline "They Know It's Loaded," TIME [Dec. 3] asks: "What is the goal of science? To blow up the world...
...other blow to Reuther's crusade was the fact that hardly any U.S. citizen, jingling the money in his pocket and noting the help-wanted ads, could get very worried about depression. Walter Reuther had tried to justify his demands by claiming that wages had to be kept at wartime levels to avoid deflation and unemployment. At the moment, both seemed some distance away...
...Sergeant Baldassare, bald and toothless, his shoulder awry from a Japanese blow, had kept himself alive to say a little more than that, and in different tones. He stopped outside the courtroom and made a fierce little speech...
...standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some mischance not readily accounted for, this type of hat was overlooked by Mr. Churchill, and I have always felt that neglect from such a connoisseur was a blow that no hat could survive...
...Step. Kelly Turner came in for stiff examination from Democratic members of the committee. Their point: if he, as chief of the Navy's war plans section, was so positive about war and where the blow would fall, why were all the other topmost admirals out of step with him? Admiral Turner considered himself the chief adviser of Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations. But "Betty" Stark, in mid-October 1941, had written to Kimmel: "I do not believe that the Japs are going to sail into us." Reminded of that letter, Kelly Turner was unperturbed...