Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present time we control the Panama passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Britain controls the other passage. While this control remains, the German, Italian and Japanese Navies are divided: the passages through which they must pass in order to concentrate their forces for a decisive blow are plugged in the English Channel, at Gibraltar, Suez and Singapore. . . . The grand objective of the Axis is to crush sea power in its main base in the British Isles, and at the same time to clear a passageway from Europe to the Pacific. . . . If this objective is obtained, we shall stand...
...more amenable to New Deal orders than Representative Warren-lanky, quick, persuasive Representative John McCormack of Boston, Mass., who had gained great popularity in the House by a habit (while presiding over the committee of the whole) of ignoring the time limits of debate, thus permitting windy colleagues to blow themselves completely out. (It is an ancient House joke that, when a flapmouthed member has exceeded his allotted five minutes by 15, the most John McCormack ever says is a soft, Irish reminder that "the gentleman has only one minute left...
This week "Free France" struck at the English-and struck a blow singularly in coordination with Axis plans. One hundred and twenty French planes were unofficially reported to have bombed Gibraltar. First reports did not indicate whether the pilots were also French...
...Gaulle would attempt a landing. Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin declared: "This is not a question simply of ships which might be taken by the Germans or Italians, but a British desire for French property. . . .Wounded as she may be, France still is capable of defending herself and replying blow for blow...
...defeat Spain, the wily Cardinal saw that he must ally himself with the German Protestants. Before he could safely ally himself with the German Protestants, he must crush their allies in France, the Huguenots. Hence the first blow against Catholic Spain was the destruction of the French Protestants. Eighteen years later, Richelieu had crippled Spain, tamed the French nobles, made the King supreme in France, France supreme in Europe...