Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left Washington for a 3,500-mile swing through the industrial Midwest, Harry Truman's face was drawn. There was no concealing that the Vinson bobble (TIME, Oct. 18) had hurt. But Truman strategists hoped that their candidate still had a Sunday punch which would knock Tom Dewey off his high pedestal and force him to fight on Truman's level...
Social Service workers from Phillips Brooks House will canvass in House dining halls and knock at doors for the rest of this week in a drive to sign up more men for work at 48 social agencies in the Boston area...
...analgesics" (drugs that knock out pain without knocking out the patient) do their work is a mystery, too. Presumably they interfere with the pain messages in the nerves that run from the skin or interior organs through the brain...
...Difference. The fans, however, don't think of DiMag as a fielder. They come to see him knock one out of the park. Whether at Yankee Stadium or on the road, a reverent roar greets him as he strides to the plate. Joe tells himself that the pitchers should be more worried than he is, and they usually are. He is a cool, relaxed figure, his bat held high and motionless, as he waits for the ball to zip in from the pitcher's box, 60 ft. away, at something like 91 m.p.h...
...main targets of Mr. Haines' ire are: politics in the Army, ineptitude in the higher echelons, lack of co-operation between Army and Navy, and the pressure put on the services by an irresponsible press and petty congressmen. Mr. Haines sets his targets up, but he does not knock them down. It is not altogether his task. When the last curtain falls, they are still standing on the stage as they are still standing in the Army; intact, secure, withstanding all thrusts...