Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Spring came-and greeting it along a wide Atlantic Coast belt was the most disastrous, dispiriting snowstorm of all (see The Weather). Foul March weather, climaxed by last week's crushing blow, was almost certain to cause snowbound distortions in the seasonal economic figures, move back the expected upturn by as much as a month. Now the Administration needed still more time to examine the economy before moving toward an antirecession tax cut or an all-out public-works program. On March 21, the day Washington had so anxiously awaited, a top Administration economist gazed...
Winter's last crushing blow began as a weak storm in the South. Laden with tropic moisture, it swung up the East Coast, began dumping wet snow, thousands of tons of it, across a 200-mile-wide belt, from Virginia all the way up to Maine...
...winner: the bibulous Socialists, who captured nine of the legislature's 29 seats. The pro-American Democrats skidded Irom 17 seats to seven, and only one of Thoma's supporters was elected. But the Communist Minren won only five seats, half the number they expected. "A stunning blow," confessed Saichi Nakeshi. Red mayor of Naha. "The people disliked the idea of being used as a tool of international Communism," commented the Socialists' snaggle-toothed Tsumichio Asato...
Next President? Defeat of his faction was a blow to León Valencia. Last year, seeking to amplify the parties' fifty-fifty nonaggression principle to include the presidency, Lleras Camargo and an anti-Gómez faction of the Conservatives agreed upon León Valencia as a single candidate for the presidential election set for May 4. But Gómez, on his return from Spain, forced Lleras to reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint...
...game. Old Master Sam Reshevsky watched him take one of Byrne's pawns with a knight, and muttered: "Now he's busted." But Bobby knew better. Later he said: "Byrne was playing pretty good, and then I gave him a hit in the head." It was a blow from which Byrne could not recover. After the 27th move, Bobby's mop-up of his opponent's shattered forces was routine...