Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deepest blow to the Olympics was dealt by Switzerland, which withdrew on November 8, only to re-enter and then withdraw again. On November 11 the Swiss drew up a resolution banning "warring nations" from the games, which will be voted upon by the International Committee in Australia...
...crash was a double blow to the Navy: last December the Seamaster's sister ship and prototype also exploded on a test flight and plunged into Chesapeake Bay. Reason for the first crash, in which all four crewmen were killed: malfunction of the tail-control surfaces that forced the sea-jet into a wild loop while flying close to the speed of sound...
...Navy planners the blow was especially bitter, for around the Seamasters they have built their hopes of adding a new dimension to long-range air warfare. The hope: the Seamaster could easily base in any hidden cove in the world, there be supplied by submarine, make its A-bomb runs and then disappear again to sea, where its chances of being spotted would be minimized. The advantages over land-and-carrier-based aircraft were so obvious that both the Air Force and the Army have been examining the Martin prototypes with interest...
Trouble Behind. Such hedging left many a Tory deeply uneasy. Brilliant young (33) Sir Edward Boyle, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, resigned from the government. Boyle was widely respected, and his resignation was far more of a blow than the earlier departure of mercurial Minister of State Anthony Nutting. Two Tory backbenchers resigned. A revolt was visibly in the making...
...machine been badly damaged, but it had been made abundantly clear to other Arab nations that to rely on Egypt to crush the hated Israelis would be to rely on a frail reed indeed. If they had achieved nothing else, the British, French and Israelis had dealt a severe blow, perhaps a fatal one. to Gamal Abdel Nasser's dream of dominating the Arab world...