Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Haynsworth or leaning that way. Only 36 backed the taciturn South Carolinian. Ten remained undecided. To Nixon's chagrin, the opposition included 18 Republicans, among them Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Assistant Leader Robert Griffin and Caucus Chairman Margaret Chase Smith. Haynsworth's chances received a severe blow when Senator Jack Miller of Iowa announced his opposition. It was the first break in conservative G.O.P. ranks...
...newsmen wanted to accept the Weathermen at their word. They were waiting for the Weathermen to start shooting police from the rooftops, to blow up railroads, buildings . . . not something so symbolic as a statue of a policeman in Haymarket Square. Why didn't the Weathermen play their parts in ways that could be counted. measured; or assessed...
...final blow was in April at University Hall. Demonstrations against the war had been non-violent-mainly because the demonstrators were non-violent people. They were sitting there. inside this Harvard administration building, and then the police came in and clobbered them, and they did not resist, and the police carried them out bleeding...
...intimidate him, the whole afternoon is one hell of a lot easier. If he gets so incensed that he starts cheating on his blocking assignments, he opens holes in the line that guys like Rick Berne or Dale Neal blow right through...
Amexco's growth enabled it to survive a blow that might have shattered another company. In 1963, an obscure subsidiary, American Express Warehousing, was duped into issuing warehouse receipts for the nonexistent salad oil of Speculator Anthony De Angelis. American Express in 1967 agreed to pay $60 million to settle creditors' claims, half immediately, the rest in annual installments of $5,000,000 each year through 1973. The payments do not reduce Amexco's current reported profits because they are charged against earnings retained from prior years, and the company's growth has given it enough...