Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathizers that Poland could yet win Soviet aid if Polish workers would oust their present leaders. With Germany's war machine in motion, Communist Earl Browder changed his rationalization of the Nazi-Soviet pact from "a wonderful contribution to peace" to "the only possibility of a decisive blow for peace...
...Heroes this week were a handful of Polish soldiers left in charge of the Westerplatte munitions dump. Under steady bombing and shell fire, they held out as a suicide squad in the thick-walled fortress, replying from its depths with machine gun fire, resolved to blow up the dump and themselves with it before surrendering...
...Collecting Net* last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies to trying to change their social status...
...Time's Herbert L. Matthews and Frederick T. Birchall cabled from Rome and London that war seemed almost certain. Both papers printed the story of the German submarine heading for Martinique, and the News went completely haywire by suggesting that the President send a couple of battleships to blow it out of the water. Next day the News apologized to its readers for getting too excited...
...Times went the whole way: "At last there is a democratic front. . . . Inevitably we are more deeply engaged in the conflict." The columnists reverted to type. Dorothy Thompson saw the world revolution coming nearer, Westbrook Pegler went yah! at the Communists, General Johnson was for letting Europe blow itself up, and Heywood Broun, hitherto a believer in the democratic front, began preaching pure pacifism. Said Eleanor Roosevelt: "Peace may be bought today at too high a cost in the future." The Communist press made itself silly trying to explain what Russia had done...