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Word: blowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your cover portrait: even if we still can't put any of our hardware on the moon, we may yet have a chance to strike a telling blow for democracy with the world's first green-haired President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...some citizens of his home town, Uvalde, Texas, suspect that Garner did not really give up his cigars and whisky last year, as he had dourly announced. No cigars, maybe, but it was quite difficult to picture durable Bourbonman Garner not hoisting one small nip to "strike a blow for liberty" once in a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...back like Paul Hornung of the Packers, if he's coming straight ahead on a handoff, he'll have more weight on his hand and be more in a sprinter's position, so he can really blow into the line. So if I see that, I cheat over a little bit so that I can be right in front of him when he gets the ball. Ollie Matson, when he's coming straight ahead, he has his feet cocked, and when he's going to the outside, he has both feet even and no weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...typically put last week by Newscaster Jacques Legoff of Detroit's WJBK-TV (one of the five TV stations owned by the Storer Broadcasting Co.). Legoff, who had not reported the first quiz scandal stories until three days after they broke because he "thought it would all blow over," angrily came to his industry's defense. "What about the buyers in department stores, in grocery stores? 'Buy one case of my product and you get one free. You buy my blue jeans and I'll remember you at Christmastime.' Is this not payola? Have there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: On the Brink? | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Wooed by all nations, because of the power it holds with the working model of a bomb that can blow up all Europe, Grand Fenwick finally negotiates the capitulation of the U.S. Fenwickian wine gets a fair break in U.S. markets; Grand Fenwick keeps the bomb in cooperation with other small neutrals to prevent a great-power war; and Tully gets the girl...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The Mouse That Roared | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

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