Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, he was in Indo-China all through the 1940 crisis when the Japs took over there. He was in mid-Pacific on a Dutch ship loaded with "enough dynamite to blow us a full day's voyaging on our way" when Singapore fell. He was in Australia through the dark days before the Battle of the Coral Sea. He was in New Delhi last August helping Bill Fisher cover the rioting there...
...nation no longer needed to be told it must give up meat. In many sections, it had already had sharp, temporary famines. Last week's crowning blow came when the War Food Administration commandeered 45% of all beef for the armed services and for Lend-Lease...
Congress had a busy, statesmanlike week, and something to show for it: a mighty heave to raise taxes; a tentative nod toward postwar world cooperation; a jarring blow at John L. Lewis...
...June American Mercury: "Everywhere, like the hard-pressed butchers and gas dealers, the men of learning are beating their breasts and saying their prayers. . . .[The war] has finally stopped the limitless expansion which created such chain stores of the intellect as California, Northwestern, Boston, Columbia and New York. . . . This blow should be considerably softened by the large exodus of vocational guides, scientific sociologists, and the professors of business administration . . . handshakers and promoters...
...leader of the West, "the leader ultimately of a German-Russian-Japanese coalition against the Atlantic world." Working with President Wilson, "I did not have the sense to see that the acquisition of the German islands in the Pacific north of the equator by Japan was a fatal blow to our defenses in the Pacific...