Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand slam homer by Steve Howe sent four runs across in the second inning and these, added to the two that scored on Howe's first inning single, churched the game. Bucky Harrison punched a circuit blow in the eighth off Newton's second pitcher just for good measure...
...British Intelligence. Odd though it seems, she is neither a poule de luxe nor a Nazi agent-just a lonely woman. No sooner have the security police made certain of this than they succeed in putting ideas in her pretty head: she should use her charm to strike a blow for Britain...
Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
Tech landed the first blow in the Varsity game, with a score by Engineer Jay Madden, but instead of firing his teammates, the goal increly infuriated the Crimson. Before M.I.T. could hit the nets again, they had tallied seven times to few up the victory...
...Perfection. "To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow: the most unfortunate one for the painter as well as for the picture . . . The value of a work is in what...