Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not yield to that which I know is wrong," cried he. "Abandonment of the principles involved anywhere is to forsake them everywhere." His lowest blow: "The livid stench of sadism, sex, immorality and juvenile pregnancy infesting the mixed schools of the District of Columbia and elsewhere." Washington schoolmen, whose delinquency problems are no worse than most big-city school systems', angrily lashed back at the myth created by four years of Dixie Congressmen's efforts to prove that integration does not work in the nation's capital...
...when speaking with Professor Jason Quaeritor, Harvard's leading authority on the Jivarro Indians of the Orinoco Valley. Professor Quaeritor is well known as Harvard's Malinowski and Margaret Mead, combined into one, as it were. He patted the the miniscule head and took a deep breath on a blow gun he has rigged up as a pipe...
...began as a small boy. I was brought up on the Orinoco, you know. God's country, you know--God's country. My father was a trader, and my mother, Jane, well she was of creole stock. So I am almost a native myself." He took another whiff of blow-gun smoke, tweaked his head's nose and continued...
When the wintry winds blow and the snowflakes fly, think of those, somewhat more sportingly talented than us, who are seeking the sun in the Southland. Imagine them, lying on the soft sand, sipping exotic potions, or joyfully exhorting their comrades on to greater heights in a friendly game of catch...
Counterattack. Then Reynolds struck the final blow. It went into the open market for all Aluminium shares that stockholders wanted to sell. The market rose to $11.90. At week's end Reynolds held directly nearly one-half of all shares outstanding, had even picked up 260,000 shares that the Church of England's Commissioners, who handle the church's investments, unloaded at a profit of about $1,000,000. Reynolds' investment: around $40 million. In addition. Tube and Reynolds upped their stock-swap offer to $12.32, got enough additional stock to raise their total holdings...