Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children were sent to the U. S. and Canada, the rate at which they could be moved, the amount of money needed to save them-the agony of Britain's waiting loomed like a symbol of modern war: it was as if, at the last moment before the blow fell, the people who believed that they were steeled to meet it found that they were not, that there remained one human sacrifice they were not prepared to make...
...Changsha. Their faces were slapped instead, in what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing attacks on Chungking. But the biggest Japanese successes of 1939-40 were accomplished by the Germans in Poland, Norway, Flanders, France...
With reference to National Affairs, p. 18, col. 3, issue of June 10, you state: "Say the Roosevelt intimates: the U. S. M-Day plan is perfect, so perfect that the actual Nazi program of complete national mobilization for a knockout blow was based on it, after a six-month study...
When Montana first sent Burton Kendall Wheeler to the U. S. Senate (in 1922), the U. S. was trying hard to forget World War I. Mr. Wheeler's own Senatorial concerns were domestic: helping blow the lid off Teapot Dome, plugging for silverite legislation, building his reputation as an able, fighting Liberal. Among many things he was against were big armaments. But he gave little heed to foreign affairs, did not trouble to label himself an Isolationist when that word still had punch...
...those who know and love France, its fall is a hard blow; to them it means the defeat of a beautiful civilization and a way of life which they felt was unconquerable. To the many more Americans who have had very little contact with France personally, its fall is beginning to mean a threat to the security and interests of the United States. All thinking Americans have now agreed that the nation is in danger; the danger comes from the conquerers of France. Some still are reticent to admit that Germany and the United States cannot live together in peace...