Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that our growing fleet of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines represents a challenge to their security entirely unmatched by their offensive or defensive arsenal. These submarines "on station" give the U.S. a guaranteed second-strike capability, a force in being that could reasonably be expected to survive the first blow and retaliate. I believe that the Soviets feel compelled to fashion some sort of "reply" to the FBM submarine fleet; American planning should assume that the U.S.S.R. will press on with an ABM program...
...keeping Negroes from playing quarterback in professional football. No matter that Negroes filled all other positions, said the magazine, a black man is not allowed to be in a "leadership position over whites." In another piece, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Action Movement, the group charged with plotting to blow up the Statue of Liberty in 1965, blamed the murder of Malcolm...
...with a gloriously vulgar clang in a British film called Georgy Girl that left nobody wondering who was the most gifted British comedienne since Kay Kendall. And Vanessa, 30, interrupted an illustrious career on the English stage with two far-out and almost offhand film performances in Morgan! and Blow-Up that suddenly and quite unintentionally projected her before millions of moviegoers as the most potent image of mystery and allure since Greta Garbo made John Gilbert's eyeballs spin like pin wheels...
...Daffodil. By last week, with both Blow-Up and Georgy Girl making boffo box office, the wave of acclaim had temporarily deposited both Redgrave girls in the U.S. Lynn was in Manhattan playing a dippy deb and bringing down the house night after night in the funniest show on Broadway: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Vanessa was in Hollywood, playing Queen Guinevere in her first cinemammoth: a $17 million movie version of Broadway's Camelot, in which she sings in a musky mezzo and looks like a rain-washed daffodil in a fire-green Sussex meadow. On April 10, they...
...second and most vital blow came from the present turmoils of the so-called Great Cultural Revoluiton. The violent and sometimes ridiculous path of the revolution his disgusted and dismayed the bulk of nations, except for those socialists, who claim to be fervent pro-Chinese...