Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most radical dissenters are the members of the Free Wales Army: eight young members are now on trial in Swansea, and some evidence produced during the trial hints that they planned to storm Caernarvon Castle during the investiture. Some call the army "a standing joke . . . they couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding." But the organization has managed to commit eleven acts of sabotage against public facilities since March...
...impenetrable defenses, he tied the score at 6 to 6. For the next six games, the contest was a standoff; one expert described it as a battle between "the young tiger who jumps on his prey and the old crocodile who waits for the right moment for the decisive blow." Then, in the crucial 19th game, Spassky quickly went to the attack and, with a flurry of brilliant closing moves, crushed the old crocodile...
...choked off vehicular border traffic, forbidden overflights of Spanish territory by British military aircraft, and even secured a United Nations General Assembly judgment condemning Gibraltar's "colonial situation." Last week, in reaction to the proclamation of a new constitution for the self-governing colony, Spain struck the harshest blow yet: it closed the border completely, barring 4,838 Spanish workers from access to their jobs in Gibraltar and in the process depriving the Rock of one-third of its labor force...
...chin and then raise his hand, as if to strike the offender with an open palm. In the ethological jargon of the Birmingham investigators, the child is in a "defensive beating posture." The more forward he holds his hand, however, the more likely he is to deliver the blow. Recognizing this change to an "offensive beating posture," the other child may well decide to retreat, even though not a threatening word has been exchanged...
Until that dawn of destruction, the best advice is to go merrily, merrily. For "the deepest insights sometimes emerge from a joke, a gag, or a slap in the face," says Argentina's Julio Cortazar, author of the highly praised fantasy-novel Hopscotch and of Blow-Up, the short story turned hit movie by Michelangelo Antonioni...