Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...develop a rocket-liner to take some of us off into space, rather than a bomb to blow us into eternity...
...armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...
...Waterfront. Batista, 57, who customarily works until 5 a.m., had just awakened at 11 a.m. on the day of the strike. At that moment, rebels grabbed a pair of Havana radio stations long enough to put out the call. "This is the final blow against the dictatorship," said the rebels' Communiqu...
Balboni led off with a looping single to right, and moved along on infield hits by Captain Bob Clearly and Saia. Short-stop Mouse Kasarjian then brought him home with a sharp blow to center, and Hathaway obliged with another hit, scoring two more...
...another defeat for the U.S.'s "unwieldy foreign policy." Some British editorialists were convinced that Russia had outsmarted the West, and that Dulles' statement that the U.S. had considered renouncing tests itself just made matters worse. "A boxer who has just received a crisp and efficient blow on the jaw recovers no points by claiming that he saw it coming." snapped the London Economist...