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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dallas, had some clipped words for the Waste Landish poets of the ''Beat Generation": "I have always felt about any form of existentialism the way James Thurber felt about the Civil War-I beg your pardon, the War Between the States-I expect to see it blow over. I don't see why a whole generation should be so gloomy. There are a lot of things to be cheerful about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...door5A crew race is to huddle up near and hop on a car to, and take your shoes off at. A crew race is to tear down the streets of Providence toward and sing "I'm a Brown man born" with, and feel your hair and your shirt blow in the breeze on, and drink...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...millions of French soccer fans it was the saddest blow of the Algerian rebellion. Favorite teams were badly crippled, and club owners put a trade value of $250,000 on the missing players. The players had not been treated meanly as Algerians; they were good friends of the other players, and were regarded as sports celebrities; most had French wives or girl friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Disappearing Act | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...theater. Kaliyorou himself was nowhere to be found. British army explosive experts insisted that the bombs, oozing nitroglycerin, were too dangerous to move, and two hours later got telephone permission from Governor Sir Hugh Foot for what Cypriots angrily denounced as a deliberate reprisal. The men were authorized to blow up the bombs where they were-inside the three-story movie house right in the middle of Famagusta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Answering Blast | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...CHEVIES may have nylon tires as standard equipment. In secret test, G.M. has put nylon tires on 40,000 new Chevies this year, later will check owners to see how they perform. If they outwear the present rayon tires, Chevy plans switch to nylon, which would be heavy blow to rayon makers, who sell 36% of total output to tire industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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