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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incident." President Eisenhower invited Gbedemah to breakfast with him and Vice President Nixon at the White House, put on an Eisenhower tour of the historic White House first floor, explained frankly that "little bits like that happen all over the place and you never know when they'll blow up or where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: From Segregation to Breakfast | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Mayor Wagner refused to accept the figures. Then the state attorney general eased the pain by ruling that state aid would not be reduced unless the next regular count confirmed the decline. Net result of the gamble: a $1,500,000 loss to the municipal pocketbook and a stiff blow to municipal pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Big Gamble, Net Loss | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Cross country coach Bill McCurdy received the crowning blow yesterday when Dyke Benjamin, his number two runner, was sent to bed with an acute case of poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runner Sick | 10/17/1957 | See Source »

Carmichael, Attenborough, and Maleson all turn in slick comic performances, and Jill Adams, as Sally Smith, is sweetly seductive. All in all, the Boulting Brothers have dealt another subtle blow to the humorless corpse of time and institution, and college audiences and old ladies alike chortle in appreciation...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Brothers in Law | 10/16/1957 | See Source »

...stainless-steel executive who runs a transcontinental railroad with the same chilling efficiency she displays in bed with various deserving tycoons. But dauntless Dagny is having troubles. Her railroad keeps breaking down. The best businessmen begin to vanish mysteriously. Oilfields flame in the night, copper mines are destroyed, docks blow skyhigh, steel mills collapse in chaos. Finally Dagny catches on: her fellow capitalists have gone on strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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