Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief livelihood of some 20,000 natives-smashed the Pan American Hotel and U. S. Navy hangar, left 40 American families and 15,000 natives homeless. When it was over, Governor McMillin called for Red Cross aid. First reports indicated that the typhoon approached the scale of the great blow of 1900. But that storm cost 20 lives; last week's, none. What damage, if any, the storm did to Japanese air and sea bases on surrounding islands, the Japanese kept to themselves...
About his own work, Sculptor Epstein waxes both lyrical and lucid. Wrote he, of his famous bulb-bellied statue Genesis: "How a figure like this contrasts with our coquetries and fanciful erotic nudes of modern sculpture! At one blow, whole generations of sculptors and sculpture are shattered and sent flying into the limbo of triviality, and my Genesis, with her fruitful womb, confronts our enfeebled generation. Within her man takes on new hope for the future. The generous earth gives herself up to us, meets our masculine needs, and says, 'Rejoice, I am Fruitfulness, I am Plenitude...
...that "unless a miracle happens, it looks as if Uncle Sam will be in the war" by next summer. If Sedgwick has his way, this is how it will happen: When White and his satellites, among them President Conant, decide that American resistance has been sufficiently weakened, the knockout blow will be delivered, and the United States will be blasted into war by a barrage of skillful propaganda shaming Hearst's puny jingoism...
...adventure in war; 3) a grave and sombre tragedy of Spanish peasants fighting for their lives. But above all it is about death. The plot is simple, about a bridge over a deep gorge behind Franco's lines. Robert Jordan, a young American International Brigader, is ordered to blow up the bridge. He must get help from the guerrillas who live in Franco's territory. The bridge must be destroyed at the precise moment when a big Loyalist offensive begins. If the bridge can be destroyed, the offensive may succeed. If the offensive succeeds, the struggle...
...greatness of this book is the greatness of these people's triumph over their foreknowledge of death-to-come if they blow up the bridge. Jordan goes through with it because he is intellectually convinced that he is helping to defeat fascism. Pilar goes through with it because she is part of the revolution and cannot stop. Pablo's strong instinct to live makes him desert at the last moment and destroy the detonator. Then he, too, realizes in his own way that "no man is an iland." He cannot stand the loneliness of desertion, returns to help...