Word: blowes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solomonic Decision to hold the Air Force to 55 groups (TIME, April 5). Forrestal's recommendation was based on a "balanced" military structure. His theory: a bigger Air Force is ineffective without a bigger ground force. Even Air Force men admit that U.S. aircraft cannot deliver a decisive blow against the enemy except from overseas bases defended by ground troops...
...television station (Chicago's second), a razzle-dazzle opening. Boss Bertie McCormick, laid up with a cold, had to watch the ceremonies on the big screen at his Wheaton estate; but Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, Mayor Kennelly and Governor Green turned up at the studio to blow congratulatory kisses...
...Agent Lightfoot was an invaluable spy, but he had up & married a little moron without party consent, and (they decided) she would have to be "eliminated." Obviously, Agent Lightfoot was the man best qualified to do the eliminating. Lightfoot protested, but he took Harriet duck-hunting and tried to blow her head off. When he failed, the Apparatus decided that bungling Agent Lightfoot must be eliminated himself...
...trouble is, the middle class is too respectable to blow off its tensions by getting mad, beating somebody up, and then being hauled away in the paddy wagon to cool down. Instead, it grits its teeth and swallows its hurts, thus producing duodenal ulcers or harsh treatment of the little woman. All the patients studied were above average in intelligence, which prompted the two doctors to conclude that "the more intelligent persons tend to have difficulties with recovery and adjustment to disability...
Before a fresh and puffy blow, the Yacht Club opened its spring season Saturday by taking third place in a Quadrangular Meet on M.I.T.'s Charles River course. Boston University's sailors were first with 38 points, Northeastern second with 32, the Crimson next with 29, and Rhode Island last with...