Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pictorial attack on Madame Mao has been reinforced by a 9,000-word editorial in the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily. The article offered the first official blow-by-blow account of the plots perpetrated by the Gang of Four in the weeks surrounding the death of Mao and focused on the gang's prowess as forgers. The forgery involved the last instructions issued by Mao, which are presently being trumpeted all over China in order to legitimize the rule of Mao's successor, Hua Kuo-feng. Mao reportedly wrote to Hua, "Act in line with...
...Vann Woodward has called it, "the age of free security." As usual, Abraham Lincoln depicted it most vividly. "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years...
...fifth biggest automaker, and eventually perhaps 13%; the Agnelli family's controlling interest will shrink from 35% to 30%. Libyans will take two seats on Fiat's 15-man board of directors and one place on the five-man executive committee. That will be a blow to Italian pride, but the government in Rome, which must approve foreign investments, is likely to go along. Reason: the $415 million that Libya is putting up will wipe out about a fourth of Italy's balance of payments deficit...
Think of that. It's enough to blow the wazoo right out of Peter Pan's Almanac. Tarnation Vides, what a line. If the Reverend Billy Whitecloud says "EVERYONE should do it," then this reporter is impressed...
...action was seen by many as a blow to Harvard and a personal victory for UMass president Robert Wood...