Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, the fact that so many Arab planes were trapped in their parking area?strung out wingtip to wingtip?suggested that Israel must have struck the first blow. The stunned Arabs, of course, said that it had, and Moscow angrily concurred. But, as Israel first told it, the Jewish jets scrambled only after early-warning radar picked up several waves of Arab planes headed straight for Israel. At the same time, a massive Egyptian armored column was reported to be rolling out of its base at El Arish and steering toward the Israeli border...
...more trouble sticking to their guns. By Wednesday night, the third day of war, all Israel brimmed with the sense of victory. As Dayan's chief of staff, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, summed it up succinctly: "We have inflicted almost total destruction on the Egyptian army, delivered a crushing blow to the Jordanian army, captured most of the relevant parts of the Sinai Peninsula and the west bank of the Jordan, and we have destroyed almost totally the air forces of four countries." Eager young Israeli paratroopers prepared for a jump assault on Sharm el Sheikh, only to be advised...
...Monro gave in. He may have been leery of the Boston papers turning his letter into another blow-up like the 1963 sex scandal. But he wrote it anyway, in no uncertain terms (Though perhaps, as some have said with some uncertain logic. Why say drugs are a "waste of time"? Isn't drinking or partying a "waste of time" too?). "It was pure Monro," one Administration official said...
...woman who obviously regards herself as a flexible and progressive administrator, the five-day hunger strike last month must have come as the final and inexplicable blow. That strike, organized by 23 upperclassmen who found themselves deadlocked with the administration over their housing arrangements, proved once and for all that the elaborate and superficially democratic decision-making structure at Radcliffe had failed. With which the disagreement escalated into name-calling testifies to some basic problem at the college. Probably the strike could have been averted and Radcliffe spared a week of embarrassing publicity; but Mrs. Bunting, it is clear...
...bill would bar the President frame setting up a draft lottery -- which could be rough to set unless he goes to Congress for separate authorizing legislation. The blow to the lottery set off Senate opposition to the bill led by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. (D-Mass...