Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will repulse each attack," he promises, "and hit back blow for blow. China, we know, will not hesitate to give us all the material aid we need...
...forehead -souvenir of a brawl with New York Defenseman Jim Neilson. He already had spent 49 min. in the penalty box, and the Chicago Black Hawks, who have never won an N.H.L. championship, were leading the league by 1½ games over Montreal. "Something was bound to blow," exulted Coach Reay. "Bobby had to do something to protect himself...
Inside New York, estimates of strike-caused loss ranged from $500 million (Mayor Lindsay) to $800 million (the Commerce & Industry Association). The association figured that wage earners lost $187.5 million in pay for 75 million unworked man-hours-a blow that fell most heavily on the poor. Said Executive Vice President Ralph C. Gross: "The city's economy was struck harder than at any time since the Depression...
...Hearing. Auerbach's temper is legendary: when the Celtics blew a six-point lead against the New York Knickerbockers one night recently, he called a time-out and gave them a dressing down in full hearing of practically everybody at Madison Square Garden. "Oh, did I blow," Red recalled last week. "I chewed them out like they've never been chewed before...
...while at Walden in 1846 that Thoreau struck another blow for individual freedom, one that, in Harding's judgment, reverberates with more force than ever today. At the time, Thoreau's blow did not count for much. He went to jail for refusing to pay his poll tax-$1.50-his way of protesting against a Government that permitted slavery. But someone, possibly one of Thoreau's aunts, paid off the revenuers, and he was freed after one night behind bars...