Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congratulations on naming the Hungarian Freedom Fighter. Since the embattled American farmers stood at Concord in 1775, there has been no greater and finer and braver blow struck for human liberty and freedom than that by these modern sons of Thaddeus Kosciusko...
...under the U.N. flag, pulled out three smaller wrecks and tied into half a dozen more. The LST Akka remains the big obstacle, and the commander of the force assigned to it has not yet decided whether he can cut and remove it piecemeal, or will be forced to blow it apart with resulting damage to the canal. Nonetheless there was now optimistic talk of clearing the canal in a month less than the earlier estimates and of opening it to ships up to 10,000 tons by early March. All of this was a sharp answer to uninformed talk...
...planted a bomb to blow up Baby Doll," cried an anonymous telephone caller to Hartford, Conn, police one night last week. The police shepherded 1,500 moviegoers into the street, searched the theater for an hour and a half but found nothing more explosive than the film itself, Playwright Tennessee Williams' sullen drama of degeneracy in the South (TIME...
Reported the Department of Agriculture last week with an urgency that broke through the cold officialese: "In many places in the Great Plains, moisture conditions are the worst in recorded history." The result: after only one month of the normal (November-May) annual "blow" season, the acreage of crop and range land damaged by soil-eroding winds in the ten-state area was already three times larger (almost 2,000,000 acres, one-third of them in Kansas) than in the same period last year. Moreover, with the peak of the high-wind season yet to come, some 29 million...
...popular of English classics-and earned its author a reputation as one of the most genial of men. A onetime ironmonger, Walton wrote not for money but for pleasure, hoped each reader would share that pleasure and "that (if he be an honest Angler) the East wind may never blow when he goes a Fishing." But from Princeton University last week an ill wind did blow, setting many an honest angler to wondering whether their gentle idol was really as original as they thought...