Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they have already established that slight changes in a compound's molecular structure sometimes make it more poisonous to insects or less poisonous to higher animals. Eventually they hope to find a Jekyll-Hyde chemical that will flow harmlessly in the veins of humans, but knock off any insect that sucks the human's blood...
...firm hand of the Law has been reaching into the Yard, clutching victims under cover of darkness. One of the unfortunates in Holworthy took refuge under his bed when, after a thunderous knock on the door, a bellow outside demanded "Open up in the name...
...seemed to be acting as a front for bookies, and 2) her husband earned $100 a week and used $90 of it to pay off a $14,000 debt incurred in passing bad checks. Another woman used her room to entertain "boy friends" (one of whom threatened to knock the hotel detective's block off) and kept her five children playing in the lobby until midnight, to the distraction of the desk clerk...
...remember whether we got unhitched in 1935 or 1936 and whether it was in Yucatan or Honduras"). But Publisher Wilkerson, who once ran a speakeasy and later the Trocadero nightclub and is now part owner of L'Aiglon and LaRue, is a man of unshakable principle: never knock an advertiser unless he forgets to advertise. When Billy retracted an accurate Gwynn item in 1937 because it offended an advertiser, Edie quit. For 4½ years she went into semiretirement; she "threw hundreds of sensational parties," which usually found her at the piano-"a lethal weapon in my hands...
Efficiency Rating. In London, James Ferguson muttered sadly: "I can't run like I used to, and I'm getting clumsy. I knock things over on the job"; he thereupon announced that, having spent some 45 of his 93 years in jail, he was finally retiring as a housebreaker...