Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frustration of a gigantic Lampoon plot to undermine and blow up the CRIMSON building on Gay Fawkes Day was disclosed last night by the Executive Board of the still-hibernating undergraduate daily...
...Japs also had landed a blow: a bomber leveled off in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, and sent its torpedo crashing into a "major U.S. war vessel" (carrier or battleship...
Russia's Red Banner armies, driving into Manchuria, strengthened Russia's hand, and weakened China's, in the coming game for Asia. President Truman, welcoming the blow, preferred to think later of the later game. He concentrated on Tokyo...
Jimmy Byrnes, the skilled old master of strong compromise, finally took a hand, wrote a reply that seemed to please all concerned except the Japs and (probably) the Chinese. It was forthright, unmistakable-and it was undoubtedly a crushing blow to Tokyo's peace party. Some 27 hours after Tokyo's offer had first been heard, OWI transmitters in San Francisco, Honolulu, Saipan were broadcasting Byrnes's note (for the U.S., British, Russian and Chinese Governments...
...Event. Sunday-supplement readers had long been warned that if ever an atom were split, the whole world might blow up. Yet when the great event occurred, only the scientific world quivered...