Word: knock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow to a faith in democracy...
...Millet's widow a 10-year 1,000-franc annuity instead. Dealers took advantage of his sliding scale of prices whereby he charged the rich much, the poor little. Paris knew him and loved him as le bonhomme Corot, a brawny celibate who in his youth could and did knock a peasant down with his fist...
...members of a family of radical labor agitators whose activities date back to the days of the I. W. W. Employers insisted that the strike was not wanted by most of their employes, that the union leaders forced a standing vote on the strike with thugs on hand to knock the head off any one who dared to vote against it, that Communists, radicals and unemployed were all made union members and turned loose as marauders against trucks. To Labor's charge that 50 pickets were shot in the back, employers retorted that only one was an actual truck driver...
Best authorities agree that Max Baer or any other hard-hitter might knock out a cow or bull by punching it between the eyes, but it would certainly not kill the beast, certainly would break the puncher's hand. There is no record of a prizefighter's trying it. However Max Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields...
...hours ticked toward midnight two crises neared. A knock at the door might mean either a trained nurse or a political secretary, bursting with news. Queen Astrid was in labor and highly excited was His Majesty's Swedish mother-in-law. So too were all the Cabinet Ministers. Disruption threatened the Cabinet of Premier Count Charles de Broqueville, a delicate coalition formed year and a half ago under the mighty shield of the late King Albert's personal prestige. Thrice before his death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father...