Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smashing journalistic tripleheader. One major story reported on Kung Fu matches in the rural communes. Another offered a detailed and edifying answer to a reader's query asking whether an athlete who is afflicted with piles should play badminton and shadowbox (he should). The third scoop was a blow-by-blow account of how Chiang Ch'ing, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, murdered her ailing husband last year, offering the latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged that when the ailing Mao was sleeping...
Laboratories are particularly hard to heat, Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for resources and planning, said yesterday. Laboratories use more energy because their ventilation fans blow out just-heated...
Surprised Senators tried clumsily to soften the blow. Utah Republican Jake Garn assured Sorensen that his integrity had not been in question. Said the Senator: "I thought you were the wrong man for the wrong position." Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh told Sorensen that some people were out to get him "because they don't want a clean broom at the CIA." Senator George McGovern emerged from the audience to remark that the episode showed that the "ghost of Joe McCarthy still stalks the land." Committee Chairman Dan Inouye, who opposed the nomination, said that he hoped Sorensen would leave...
...South Dakota, where two-thirds of the state's stock ponds were dry, there was not enough moisture to freeze the soil and, incredibly, it began to blow away in scenes chillingly reminiscent of the Dust Bowl of the '30s. Soil erosion in the coming windy months is also a threat throughout the farm belt. Grain farmers want more snow, not less, to blanket and insulate the ground -and provide moisture in the spring. Livestock herds are being sold off as feed costs rise. Things are so bad that Roald Lund, a North Dakota agriculture expert, suggested that...
Gilmore sent Amber Jim one of his own poems, a gloomy meditation that began "Feeling a beckoning wind blow thru/ The chambers of my soul I knew/ It was time I entered in ..." On a cheerier note, he said he had asked a relative to buy her an 8-mm. movie camera and projector. He thought about her every day, would write to her every day, and added: "Be cool. I love...