Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national noise of Britain early on a winter morning is a compound of hawk, cough and nose-blow. Wrote 17th-Century Doctor-Author Sir Thomas Browne: "The ancient inhabitants of this island were less troubled with coughs when they went naked and lived in caves...
...security underwriters were in such clover as they had not whiffed since the Big Blow hit Wall Street 16½ long years ago. The Securities & Exchange Commission reported this week: corporate stock and bond issues in 1945 shot up to $5.8 billion, almost double the 1944 total...
...Cabinet meeting at noon] it was now the opinion of everyone that if this [Japanese] expedition was allowed to get around the southern point of Indo-China and to go off and land in the Gulf of Siam . . . it would be a terrific blow at all of the three Powers, Britain at Singapore, The Netherlands, and ourselves in the Philippines...
Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
...Soviet Russia feel ill-rewarded for her efforts in the war? Let her not forget that her "two tremendous antagonists" were overthrown, that "Japan was overthrown almost entirely by American arms [and that] Russia recovered almost without striking a blow all that she lost to Japan 40 years...