Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Point, Annapolis and the Air Academy; to weed out the applicants, the Senators first send them to examinations given by the Civil Service Commission. Last week Russell and Talmadge decided to announce the results of this year's examination. For poor old Georgia, the results were a blow...
...forced by lenders to sell as the price skidded lower. By year's end he had unloaded all but a few thousand of his remaining shares "to take tax losses." Friends insisted Young's own personal finances were in good shape, but it was a bitter blow for him to lose so much money on his own road...
...Left-Winger Kaneshi, he called on the electorate to "avenge Senaga." Much of the time, Kaneshi sat smirking nervously at the back of his own platform while ex-Mayor Senaga hailed him as "a Sputnik," denounced "American oppression," and gleefully boasted that "Russia now has a weapon which can blow up the White House in Washington...
...Havre where, stormbound overnight, she opened a newspaper and read an official announcement of Louis' betrothal to Spain's Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents of her wardrobe thrown on the floor, her desk's secret drawer torn out. The secret police had done such a thorough job that she "no longer possessed a single letter from the Emperor Napoleon...
...Ross Sea. The nearest supply cache left by Hillary is 500 miles away, and toward the end of the short Antarctic summer the weather will be too bad for reliable air transportation. If his hard-punished Sno-Cats break down or run out of fuel, the howling blizzards that blow in February may make it impossible to rescue...