Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman's abrupt termination of Lend-Lease (TIME, Aug. 27) reverberated around the world. Most nations took it philosophically, but Britain was hurt and worried. The blow fell while Britain was tightening its belt against a winter of bleak prospects (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Just before the Lend-Lease blow fell, London's New Statesman and Nation (close to the Labor Government) observed: "British policy is limited by two factors-the American control of the technological processes concerned with the production of the atomic bomb and the complete dependence during this transition period of Britain's economy on American financial...
Then from faraway Boston came a body blow. Nelson Rockefeller, the conciliatory U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, stood up at a Pan-American dinner and denounced Argentina as "the black sheep" of the hemi sphere family...
...Ernest Bevin told the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, meeting in London, that "prodigious inventions in the field of destruction have given an air of unreality to the whole organization. . . ." But he deplored the view "that we must either immediately constitute a superstate or the whole world will blow...
...quite a blow to Stephen when Lincoln's Republicans sang a parody on Democrat Stephen Douglas set to Stephen's Old Uncle...