Word: blows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the fortunes of both are ebbing away in their cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa. In a struggle with the ex-wastrel, a flashy theatrical promoter is casually killed. It looks like a blow to South Africa. But a stranger, a queer, forlorn barroom porter who has befriended the girl, shoulders the guilt so they can still use the steamer tickets...
...there had been no strike, is a blackleg to the signature of his accredited representatives and a traitor to the decision of the special general meeting. . . . Up to this moment we have refused to believe, although preparing for all emergencies, that so grave a blunder and such a blow at the very principles of collective bargaining should have been embarked upon...
...Trades Union Congress, it did not take any action on its own account. For this reason, and the fact that Labor chose td antagonize the public at the moment the Labor Party was stepping into the shoes of the Conservative Government, the strike was held to be a severe blow to the prestige of Labor in Parliament...
...found so much in the in- convenience it causes travelers, as in its paralyzing effect on food distribution Practically every ounce of food has to be transported from the coast in trains to the large cities and towns, and the stoppage of such railway service aims a devastating blow at the people as a whole, for not one of the large towns is capable of storing enough food to last its population more than a few days...
...knowledge that the plan is definitely not Hudson's comes as a blow to those members of the University who have been hoping that the winner was a Harvard man and that Professor Hudson's denial was forced by an oath of secrecy...