Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closer for 1964 that Administration estimates indicate. The point: the Administration ought not to bet so heavily in strategic doctrine upon a weapon still in its infancy. And the U.S. deterrent to war will not deter unless it is backed up by enough protected missiles to strike the retaliatory blow...
...Blow Them Up. Britain's prisons have for years made humanitarians blush, but somehow Parliament has never got around to doing much about them. What Herbert Morrison said of Dartmoor-"The only thing to do with Dartmoor is to blow it up"-could be said about Pentonville, Wandsworth, Brixton, Wormwood Scrubs and just about all the others. Many are more than a century old, built for treadmill labor and solitary confinement. Bleak Dartmoor itself was. built in 1808 for French prisoners of war, has changed little since the War of 1812 when it held 2,000 captive American seamen...
Although no further scoring took place, there was plenty of action, as Brandeis foiled the Crimson's freeze tactics three times only to blow easy shots under the basket, each time protesting that the shooter was fouled, This may well have been the case, but since the officials seemed to make the wrong decisions more often than not--bringing complaints from both coaches--it came as no surprise...
...book, Mexican Journal (Devin-Adair; $6), Selden Rodman writes that "if there was any doubt in my mind that Orozco was the great artist of our age, it has vanished." But Rodman quotes a number of the master's countrymen to prove that the winds of fame blow cold as well as warm. Sample opinions: ¶The late Painter Diego Rivera: "Orozco was the only great artist of the counterrevolution ... He felt no compassion, made no affirmation. Because society disapproved of Hitler, he was for him." ¶ Painter David Siqueiros: "If ten people were in a room and argued...
...good half of the tales in A Medicine for Melancholy are inner-directed rather than outer-space bound. The Headpiece is a typical Bradbury skin-prickler. Andrew Lemon is a middle-aged apartment dweller, thoroughly undistinguished except for the hole in his head, the result of a hammer blow from his exwife. Lemon is hopelessly in love with a pert young thing down the hall, but she is cool to him, and he blames his strange deformity. One day he knocks at her door proudly decked in a toupee. Tonelessly, the girl says, "I can still see the hole...