Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven months, the U.S. was pledged to knock the chocks from under the Philip pine ship of state and send it sliding into the treacherous sea of independence. War had holed the uncompleted hull. Hurriedly the Administration in Washington planned a patching job. Last week, while the tools and blueprints were still being got together, it sent Indiana's slightly dented political knight-errant, Paul V. McNutt, off to Manila as High Com missioner, to straw-boss the work...
...Congress, trying to knock off three minor New Dealers in one of its rows with Franklin Roosevelt, had tacked a rider onto an appropriations bill denying salaries to Robert Morss Lovett, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and FCC employes Goodwin B. Watson and William E. Dodd Jr. The excuse: the Dies Com mittee said the three were "radicals." All three continued working for awhile, then filed suits for back salary...
...Tinian he and Pfc. Al Shirley, of Los Angeles, made an unauthorized patrol ahead of advancing tanks to defuse land mines. They captured a machine gun, turned it on the enemy and killed 19. Pfc. Shirley used a whole clip from a Browning automatic rifle to knock down a Jap before the machine gun was taken. For such waste, Sergeant Smith gave him a good dressing-down...
Howard Lindsay found himself unexpectedly onstage in a new Lindsay-Grouse collaboration, State of the Union, a Broadway-bound political hot potato about how Republicans knock their heads together. Author Lindsay, who pinch-hit as an old-line GOPolitico for two performances, is used to saying his own lines; he played Father in Life with Father for 1,618 performances...
...experts might be too sophisticated to admit it, but in the public eye the Army team is a gang of super-dupermen who dwell high on the west banks of the Hudson, knock the sawdust out of tackling dummies all week, emerge from their caves on Saturday afternoon to scare women, children and mere mortal football foes. There is logic in the notion...