Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somehow the Magdalena had to be kept open. Much of the nation's economic life depended on this hardening artery. Said El Colombiano: "Paralysis of the Magdalena would mean a tremendous blow to Colombia. The Magdalena system must be saved from ruin...
...What a blow it was to compare my accomplishments and possessions with your average reader's . . . However, if there is anyone who reads TIME who has any more optimism than I have of someday equaling and even surpassing this mythical average reader, I don't know...
...Watts has been handling explosives and infernal machines for over 33 years. At one time he was mostly concerned with the deadly bundles the Irish Republican Army sent over to blow up English post offices. Since 1945 he has concentrated on letter bombs sent to Churchill, Bevin and other VIPs...
...switch to Hebrew.* A dead language, a language of scholarship and liturgy for centuries, Hebrew has been revived and made the official language of Israel. In earlier days, some of the old folks were shocked to hear Hebrew used in everyday speech. When a mother scolded, "Little Ittomar, blow your nose," in the tongue of the prophets, oldsters winced...
...steel plant, thought he saw a way to pay off the debt: he hiked his prices an average of $30 a ton (on top of the $9-plus increase which he and other steelmakers had just posted). Kenneth Norris, chairman of the Western States Council, .called it "a knockout blow ... by the man who talked so loud about what he was going to do to build Western industry...