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Word: blows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Music lovers chose the Governor of Louisiana last week. The choice was a blow-1) to the remnants of the Huey Long machine, 2) for music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Triumphant Minstrel | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business I'm in," he says, "things may blow up overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Triumphant Minstrel | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Zhukov's greatest tactical gain was his blow at Nazi communications. He cut the Odessa-Lwów railroad. Three German armies still in the Ukraine had now lost their last rail line of escape, would have to retreat along the muddy country roads of Bessarabia and the Ukraine, or from the Black Sea's battered ports. Manstein apparently had waited too long to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Zhukov's Dagger | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Sharpest blow was struck by Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron's Committee on Home Front Unity (polite name for the Los Angeles Race Committee). It recommended that the Hays Office ban Uncle Tom on the grounds that the picture would cause "racial tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Neo-Tomism | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Roth: Possible-it's a sure thing. Yes. Isn't that a blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Skeleton in the Bureau | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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