Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Nasser delivered his blow: "We shall build the High Dam as we desire ... The annual income of the Suez Canal is $100 million. Why not take it ourselves? In the name of the nation, the President of the Republic resolves that the World Maritime Company of the Suez Canal will be nationalized ... At this very moment some of your Egyptian brethren are taking over the Canal Company...
...theory that "if the Hell's Canyon bill can be defeated, Wayne Morse can also be defeated." In the end, an almost solid phalanx of Republicans (exceptions: Wisconsin's Alex Wiley and North Dakota's Bill Langer), joined by eight conservative Southern Democrats, struck a blow for President Eisenhower's partnership policy of power development. They defeated the Democratic bill, 51 to 41. Mourned Oregon's Morse: "A tragic blow to the welfare of the nation"-not to mention to the welfare of Wayne Morse...
...other nations." Up to now the British have viewed the next war as a trading of H-bombs followed by a "broken-backed" struggle for recovery, but they now accept the doctrine of U.S. Admiral Arthur Radford and other top British and U.S. airmen that the first big blow will settle things. The British therefore want to concentrate on guided missiles. They would abolish first the Fighter Command and then the "interim" long-range jet bombers when missiles are perfected; they would confine the Royal Navy largely to a convoy force of anti-submarine vessels, and the Land Army...
...People are talking too much about July 20," said South Viet Nam's doughty little President Ngo Dinh Diem. "Dates aren't important, but action is." Last week in Diem's resurgent country, July 20 came and went. There was no disorder, no rioting, no sudden blow by sneaker-wearing Communists from the North, nothing to mark the fact that July 20, 1956 was in effect the date accepted after the Geneva Conference of 1954 for elections to unite North and South Viet...
According to legend, King Charles IX of France was brought to his deathbed by his passion for sounding lung-lacerating halloos on the hunting horn. True or not, the fine art of horn blowing was for generations a popular musical diversion of Europe's landed aristocracy and an accepted measure of the virility of its practitioners (Louis XIII boasted he could blow a whole day without weakening). Although blue-blooded huntsmen have long lamented the passing of the horn's heartier days, few have addressed themselves to the problem with the energy of Belgium's 59-year...