Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan cab driver and a Chicago barber each heard the knock of opportunity; but only one responded...
...week the President slept an hour or two later than usual, ate well and relaxed. He even drove a car-a rare privilege for a President-on the Overseas Highway. It was just what the doctor ordered to knock the nagging cold he had taken south...
...minutes after a knock sounded at the door, Levinson was dead on the floor with three slugs in his body. Benny the Meatball was out on the dark street yelling, "Help, help, help!" Five bullets had gone right through him, and he soon fell dead. Residents of the apartment looked out and saw a black automobile drive away...
...young auto salesman who had skyrocketed up in the golden '20s,-and put out a slinky car bearing his name-controlled AVCO. But to a cunning infighter like V.E., with the well-heeled Schroders again in his corner, it was the work of only a few months to knock out Cord* and take over the company in August...
Little is definitely known about mesons, except that they are formed in large numbers in the upper atmosphere. One theory: cosmic rays hit air atoms, knock high-speed protons out of their nuclei. These hit other atomic nuclei, somehow producing mesons. Mesons live only two-millionths of a second; then they disintegrate with a burst of energy. All, or nearly all, the matter in.the meson spontaneously turns into energy. If physicists could generate mesons on a large scale, their great problem might be solved...