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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhymes with Blough), it occurred to me that union men might have at least wondered if Mr. "Man of Steel's" name was pronounced "Blow" or "Bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Nixon (looking intently into Khrushchev's eyes): It would be a great mistake and a blow to peace if that conference were to fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Better to See Once | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Military Governor General Ahmad Saleh al-Abdi, who is entrusted with maintaining order, seems to have no well-defined political ideology of his own, but his job has made him a committed antiCommunist. Last week, in the stiffest blow yet at the street-prowling Communist gangs who stir up sporadic violence, Abdi forbade all civilians to carry firearms-even licensed weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Three Against the Communists | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...flat-you need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew ("Don't have a light-hearted comedian as a member of a serious racing crew"). He even talked about the weather ("Squalls from the northwest blow longest and hardest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Sailor's Lore | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Last week the Weather Bureau was readying an array of new gadgets to track a storm like a beagle after a bunny. Stimulated by the many reports of large flocks of birds trapped in the eye of a hurricane, unable to escape against the strong winds blowing toward its center, the Weather Bureau has devised a balloon that keeps itself floating in air of a specified barometric pressure. Released from a hurricane-scouting aircraft, it should follow along at a constant barometric pressure, trapped in the eye like the birds, broadcasting radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watch That Hurricane | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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