Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When 5,000 planes are down and 50 pesos paid in, a Gust becomes a Hurricane. When 10,000 planes are down and 100 pesos paid, the Order of the Bellows is bestowed. But no joiner may "blow himself to Puffdom and other exalted ranks" by prepayment or overpayment of dues. All contributions are gladly accepted but the contributor's promotion can proceed only at the pace set for him by the R. A. F. after he signs...
...such bad shape that a blow might have impaired his sight," explained McCoy's trainer. But Boston's dumfounded fight fans booed and whistled. Joe Louis recently agreed to defend his championship once a month-against second-raters like Red Burman, Gus Dorazio, Tony Novak, Abe Simon. If the rest of this series of fights-cooked up by his co-managers, John Roxborough, Julian Black, and Promoter Mike Jacobs-make Louis look as mediocre as he did in Boston, they may not work out badly for Messrs. Roxborough and Black. They had scheduled Louis for an outdoor fight...
...planes come aboard. On a platform at her stern the signal officer brings them in. They plunk down with a bang into the arresting gear, while the parti-colored uniforms of her goblins appear and disappear from her mahogany-red deck. Compressed air sighs and hisses. Bells ring. Whistles blow as planes taxi forward and are whisked magically below to the hangar deck on high-speed elevators. Occasionally a siren wails like a seagoing banshee as a pilot overshoots and cracks up against the barrier (but seldom hurts himself or crew...
...vast semicircle round Britain, from Narvik down the northern and western coasts of France to Spain. He will have two new 35,000-ton battleships, the Tirpitz and the Bismarck, and other vessels in the North Sea early next year. With these he will try to deliver a knockout blow at our communications so as to prevent us getting the food, the raw materials and airplanes necessary to enable us to continue the war at full strength...
...first blow of the attack was driven home by the R. A. F. under command of Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, who got the second highest bag of any British flier in World War I (60 planes) and about the most decorations. Everything the R. A. F. could get off the ground went out-from slick new Hurricanes recently brought East, to heavy old Glosters. vibrating like aerial pianos. Just as the Germans did on May 10 in the Low Countries, the R. A. F. and the Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right...