When World War II brought rice shortages, the sake-brewing industry was dealt a hefty blow as the government clamped down on the use of rice for brewing.

A critical blow to the franchise came in, though, with the start of the World Hockey Association.

Rice's three-run home run was the key blow in helping the Pawtucket Red Sox ( International League ) defeat the Tulsa Oilers ( American Association ) in a 5 – 2 win in the 1973 Junior World Series.

The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds blow east to west.

ICP meetings were attended by Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of plotting to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, and Abdul Aziz Odeh, the Islamic Jihad's spiritual leader.

In March 2007, he confessed to masterminding the September 11 attacks, the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean, the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and various foiled attacks.

The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds in the West Indies blow east to west.

This was sparked in part after it was discovered that the driver of the Ryder van used to blow up the World Trade Center in the 1993 terrorist attack in New York, Eyad Ismoil, had entered the country on a student visa to attend Wichita State but had dropped out of college and gone underground, only to resurface in the attack.

The final blow to the movement came with the beginning of the Second World War in 1941.

This series delivered yet another blow to Red Sox fans ' hopes of winning a World Series for the first time since 1918.

The depletion of Canadian talent following that country's entry into World War II in 1939 was the final death blow for the Americans, which suspended operations in 1942 and folded in 1946 without playing another game.

The principal mission of the World Powers at the congress was to deal a fatal blow to the burgeoning movement of pan-Slavism.

Japan ’ s defeat in World War II was for him a hard blow, and Unno spent the last years in his life in a deeply prostrated state.

Their strong blow increased their stature in the eyes of the French and British forces, but again demonstrated the critical role of artillery during World War I and the difficulty of supplying the massive World War I armies while they were on the move.

The cancellation of the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship however was a major blow to the league as clubs which had seen a way of making a substantial amount of much needed money.

Destin's career suffered a fatal blow in World War I.

Maiev was shown during the Alliance campaign as escaping Illidan, though this was later retconned and changed to her being captured and handed over to Akama and the draenai, allowing her to later deliver the killing blow to Illidan during World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

* June 11-Max Schmeling wins the undisputed World Heavyweight title, defeating NBA champion Jack Sharkey by a four round disqualification, after being hit with a damaging low blow.

* December 21 – Seventeen-year-old Robin Oswald hijacks Trans World Airlines Flight 541, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 with 87 people on board, threatening to blow up the airliner if her father is not released from prison.

In Perfect World International experience is distributed according to one's contribution so that a player who merely runs in and lands only the killing blow gets relatively little EXP, as opposed to if they had taken on the target all by themselves and won.

He saw active service in the First World War, sustaining several serious injuries: his left hand was left virtually useless by injuries sustained on the Somme ; his legs were riddled with shrapnel ; he was bayonetted in the groin ; and the legacy of a blow to the head by a German soldier's rifle butt left him prone to blackouts.

However, the occupation of Persia during World War I by Russian, British, and Ottoman troops was a blow from which Ahmad Shah never effectively recovered.

On 28 September 1985, the Crabtrees received another blow when World of Sport was taken off the air.

The Great Northern War, a period seen by the contemporaries as a passing eclipse, may have been the fatal blow destined to bring down the Noble Republic.

The disastrous performance of the Russian armed forces in the Russo-Japanese War was a major blow to the Russian State

** The command council of Iraq orders its army to " deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets ," initiating the Iran – Iraq War.

After a siege of three months, the city had to surrender — an enormous blow to Habsburg geo-political strategy during the Thirty Years ' War.

Their execution, under the then conditions of time and space, invariably fell short of expectations, and the history of the war proves, as that of the Seven Years ' War was to prove, that the small standing army of the 18th century could conquer by degrees, but could not deliver a decisive blow.

This led to the War of the Dwarves and Orcs, in which nearly all of the Orc hordes of the Misty Mountains were exterminated but half of the Dwarf host were killed, a blow that took the Dwarves several hundred years to recover from.

During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas Francis as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas Francis instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

This probably dealt a fatal blow to any chance of permanent peace between Rome and Carthage and is one of the causes of the Second Punic War and held as the motivation of the subsequent military and political activities of Hamilcar.

The cover story of the May / June 1998 issue entitled Plain Crazy: The Joint Strike Fighter Story discussed the development of a new set of military fighter jets that could " blow a hole in the attempt to create a leaner Post-Cold War military.

The next year, in 1667, the Dutch under command of De Ruyter executed a retaliatory expedition, and dealt the English navy a heavy blow at the Raid on the Medway ( also known as the Battle of Chatham ), in effect ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Although the Qing Dynasty attempted to modernize the Chinese navy, China's Beiyang Fleet was dealt a severe blow by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ).

Marie by the Americans during the War of 1812 was a serious blow during an already difficult time.

This was in response to weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894-5, not long after the First and Second Opium Wars ; this blow came as a major shock to the Chinese, because Japan had been regarded as a tributary state, was much smaller than China, and was regarded as inferior.

The 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War dealt a decisive blow to Ottoman power in the Balkan Peninsula.

Rand stabbed Ba ' alzamon in the heart, but was severely and forever wounded himself by a blow struck by Ba ' alzamon, melting off the majority of his Aes Sedai forged sword made with the Power in the War of the Shadow.

The 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War dealt a decisive blow to Ottoman power in the Balkan Peninsula, leaving the empire with only a precarious hold on Macedonia and western Balkans.

* In August 1943, the cover of Four Favorites comic ( Number 11 ), displayed the four favorites — from left to right, The Unknown Soldier, Captain Courageous, Lightning, and Magno, the Magnetic Man ( along with Davey, his boy partner ) — all singing " Der Fuehrer's Face " in the background, whilst a strong and powerful " War Bond " simultaneously knocks out Hirohito, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini with one fierce blow in the foreground.

The 5th Brigade suffered a major blow at the hands of Montoneros, when over one-hundred — perhaps several hundred -- Montoneros guerrillas and milicianos where involved in the most elaborate operation in the so-called " Dirty War ", which involved the hijacking of a civilian airliner, taking over the provincial airport, attacking the 29th Infantry Regiment's barracks at Formosa province and capturing its cache of arms, and finally escaping by air.

The defeat in the Greco-Turkish War which came soon after dealt a serious blow to his morale.

During the English Civil War, Philip Stapleton continued in much of the same anti-Tudor & Stuart sentiment as Guy Fawkes, whose statement, when asked by one of the Scottish lords what he had intended to do with so much gunpowder, Fawkes answered him, " To blow you Scotch beggars back to your own native mountains!