Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made pointed and effective use of the subversion issue in his campaigns. His intensity in the use of that issue inspired many of the bitter attacks that have been made on him. Stumping the country in 1952 and 1954, he intensified the bitterness by hitting hard, by trading blow for blow with Harry Truman. (Among his most consistent, most effective antagonists: the Washington Post and Times Herald Pulitzer Prize Cartoonist Herbert Block-Herblock.") There has been little criticism of the job he has done as the most active and influential Vice President in U.S. history. Says an aide: "His whole...
During a rehearsal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Britain's trigger-tempered maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, an irascible 77, soothed himself by trying to make music on a sheng, an old wind that few modern Chinese blow good. The cluster of fluty pipes had been presented to Beecham, himself no mean player of the piano and trombone, by touring orchestra members of Red China's Variety Theater...
...crack at TV directing. He was surprised at the prissiness of TV censors: four of the several references to Billie as a "broad" had to go. Anything that might be construed as a reference to mental illness was also cut: "crazy broad" became "dizzy broad." "Off her nut" became "blow her stack." Suggestions of physical impairment were primly deleted, viz., Billie, trying on her glasses, to Harry: "What's so funny? That I'm blind practically?" Network censors thought the most offensive line was Billie's explanation of Harry's objection to her work...
...gawkers and autograph hounds materialized, and traffic was soon jammed. Deaf to the manager's pleas to hit the trail, The Pelvis ecstatically kept on signing things thrust at him. Temper frayed, the manager bopped the singer on the back of his ducktailed coiffure. The blow made Elvis real mad. Side burns bristling, he rolled out of the car and rocked the manager with a looping right to the eye. Then a station attendant, a real big guy, moved in to square off with Presley. But Elvis threw a Sunday punch that grazed the bruiser's puss...
Importers admit that there is indeed some risk involved with Middle East oil. However, they argue that, short of actual war, the oil can be kept flowing. Furthermore, importers point out that to cut back oil imports now would be a damaging blow to their competitive position. Currently, some 20 companies are exploring around the world for oil. If U.S. markets are closed to them, it will not only slow down exploration, but it will also damage the overall position of the U.S. itself in future years when domestic markets are increasingly dependent on foreign oil supplies...