Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellent physical trim. The magnitude of the gamble has not outwardly affected him. His health is robust, his sleep undisturbed. It is the kind of conditioning all soldiers must achieve, or blow...
...given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history, and in the better days that lie ahead, men will speak with pride of our doings. . . . Let us go forward to victory, and, as we enter the battle, let us recall the words of a soldier spoken many years...
Surprise. General Leonid Govorov's blow last week caught the Finns and their German allies by surprise. In next-door Sweden, observers predicted Finland's collapse within three months, voiced doubt that Nazi General Eduard Dietl would rush his nine divisions from the north to help the hard-pressed Finns...
...sooner had Leopold Stokowski patched up his squabble with the musicians and music lovers of Mexico City (TIME, June 5) than the National Broadcasting Company announced last week that it had fired him from his job as part-time conductor of the NBC Symphony. Behind the blow that knocked British-born, Irish-Pole Stokowski over Radio City's ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini...
Bill Peck and Perry Royce hammered out home runs for the middies, each coming with two men aboard. Peck's blow came in the first frame and gave the victors a lead which they never lost. Lieutenant Commander Salmon and Professor Nilsson were the faculty's leading hitters. Also starring for the faculty was Professor Bursk, who was all over the field . . . and we mean that literally...