Word: blowed
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Question put by House Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy before the House Space Committee last week: Is it still U.S. policy not to strike the first blow in war? Said McElroy: "Our policy is that we will not attack first." Democrat McCormack pressed harder: "Isn't this policy a rather untenable one in case of a great emergency?" McElroy acknowledged that to let U.S. enemies strike the first blow in the nuclear missile age would indeed help a potential attacker, then said of U.S. policy: "Whether that will always be true I think could...
...days later President Eisenhower was asked at his news conference if he could foresee circumstances in which the U.S. might have to strike the first blow. Replied the President: "No." But then the President, too, added a qualification. Said he: "The right of self-preservation is just as instinctive and natural for a nation as it is for the individual. Therefore, if we know we are at any moment under a threat of attack, as would be evidenced by missiles or planes coming in our direction, then we have to act just as rapidly as possible, humanly possible, to defend...
Throughout the season Bob Foster and captain Joe Noble had been considered the only Crimson wrestlers who had a chance to win their divisions, but even this slim hope received a blow this week as Noble was forced out of action with an injury. Foster remains as the varsity's top threat--probably the only threat--in the 177-lb. division...
Composer Dello Joio describes the work as "ecstatic," and the delighted audience agreed with him. Conductor Clayton Krehbiel described it more prosaically: "I thought we were going to blow the listeners out of the room...
...must deal with subscribers who blow apart their telephone lines by firing shotguns out the window (148 such cases in Chicago last New Year's Eve), with farmers who harvest the lines with their crops (corn-picking time is a nightmare for repairmen), with homeowners who are jealous of their picture-window view ("They come at me like a bear," says one foreman, "if they don't like where I put a pole"). He must also be ready for the occasional lonely housewife who meets him in a negligee. Rule of thumb: get out, and come back when...