Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the limestone-and-coral islands from Grand Bahama to Great Inagua hold treasure beyond Teach's wildest dreams: the northeasterly breezes that blow across them are heavy with the sweet green smell of money. A single street-front foot of Nassau's shop-lined Bay Street on New Providence Island costs as much as $10,000; clubs, marinas, luxury cottages and the private pleasure domes of the Western world's wealthy nestle among the avocado trees from one end of the 750-mile, 673-island chain to the other...
David Holmes, however, is a doubtful starter since his face was badly lacerated in practice this week. Resulting from a blow by Shag Shaunessey, the injury required twelve stitches. Frank Schwartz will fill in for forward Dick Baker, who is also unable to play...
Undefeated in regular season play, the varsity lacrosse team will face its first Ivy League competition against Cornell at Ithaca this afternoon. Last season, the Big Red dealt a crushing blow to the Crimson's Ivy League hopes when they toppled the varsity 7 to 1 in a game Coach Bruce Munro called "one of the sloppiest I have ever seen...
...Louis Joseph Abbate and Michael Louis Falcone, union-hired hoods, lightly sentenced (three months each) by an Illinois court for a plot to blow up Bell Telephone equipment, later got stiffer sentences (three years, one year) in U.S. court for conspiracy to destroy U.S.-used communications lines...
...though, Simon's poeticizing betrays him. His final gust tastes too much of sorrow spooned with a sophomore's relish: "Soon [the wind] would blow up great storms across the plain, tear the last red leaves from the vines, strip the trees bent beneath it, its strength unimpeded, purposeless, doomed to exhaust itself endlessly, without hope of an end, wailing its long nightly complaint as if it were sorry for itself, envying the sleeping men, transitory and perishable creatures, envying them their possibility of forgetfulness, of peace: the privilege of dying...