Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out, Johnson probably spared his prestige a painful blow by retreating to Texas instead of going out politicking. Save for Montana, where Senator Lee Metcalf won the only major race, Democrats suffered serious defeats in every state that the President had planned to visit. Even in Texas, Republican Senator John Tower crushed Democrat Waggoner Carr. According to a gag making the Washington rounds. "Lyndon...
...citizens of the capital of Renaissance art once again watched in silent disbelief as the floodwaters of the "royal stream" receded. This time, the raging tide had swept down from the mountainous north in a wide arc through Florence. The waters killed at least 100 persons, dealt a severe blow to the economy of one-third of Italy, and ruined countless millions of dollars' worth of Florentine masterpieces...
...beauties of the motel room that she owns, conjuring up memories of the garish comic horrors of the journey through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow-up heads. They proceed to demolish everything in he room, and at the height of the carnage they scrawl foot-high obscenities on the walls, some never before presented on the U.S. stage. It is an allegory on U.S. inner violence, a sign that Americans hate the world they have...
...American Greetings' artists and editors hold at their offices in a onetime airplane plant in Cleveland. Stone, whose regular staff of 200 creative people is much more dignified, gives his Hi Brows free rein. They include an ex-nightclub comedian, a onetime disk jockey who likes to blow on trumpet mouthpieces while he creates, and an astrologer who owns the largest collection of Batman comic books in Ohio; their office decor ranges from a sculptured bust with a leather flying helmet on it to a tape recorder on which the group listens to old Fibber McGee & Molly radio programs...
...blow could be the loss of center half Andy Kydes, the Crimson's key performer this season. Kydes will be replaced by Abi Azikiwe if the challenge of Brown isn't enough to dull the pain in his hemorrhaging...