Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed a smashing blow, and it ended all Republican hopes that, by the election of Kohler and the death of one or another of several aging Democrats, they might get control of the Senate before the 1958 elections. It also made the G.O.P. election prospects look steeper...
...fevered blast against Britain's "inhuman methods of warfare against the peaceful population of Oman." Sir Harold Caccia, Britain's ambassador to Washington, called on John Foster Dulles to warn him that unless the U.S. supported Britain on Oman, it would be "almost as much a blow as Suez...
...Blow the great trumpet for our freedom and raise the banner for the ingathering of the exiles and gather us together from the four corners of the earth, and may our eyes behold the return to Zion in mercy...
...Kwangtung province, Peking claimed that a plot to blow up the Canton-Shamchun rail line died aborning when the chief saboteur, "caught carrying 1.5 kilograms of U.S.-made high explosives," had a change of mind and surrendered to authorities. He told Red officials he had been "coerced" by Nationalist agents in Hong Kong, and a grateful Peoples' Council decided that this full and frank confession deserved a reward: they gave him a fountain pen. Communist informers also uncovered a plot in Tsinghai "led by intellectuals and financed by capitalists" who planned to overthrow the regime. The plotters' goal...
...flies in the face of an unparalleled broadening of popular interest in business. Whether as consumers, taxpayers, stockholders, homeowners, union members, employees or businessmen, newspaper readers are concerned as never before with the economic fronts that affect their pocketbooks. Millions of readers, for example, have a direct stake in blow-by-blow coverage of inflation and its many-faceted causes and effects...