Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another error was the decision not to go after German electric power, believed too highly developed to knock out. Destruction of 95 plants of 50,000 kw. capacity could have knocked out 50% of the country's generating capacity...
...Notre Dame, which kept its first team in only eleven minutes against Iowa, and won, 56-to-0. The man the fast-blooming Irish depend on to knock out Navy this week is passing, running, kicking Quarterback Frank ("Boley") Dancewicz, who is also the deadliest tackling back ever seen at Notre Dame...
Lean, grey Majority Leader John W. McCormack led Administration supporters in an eight-hour floor battle to knock out the rider. When it was over, Republicans and Southern Democrats gave their answer, approved it 162-10-101. The vote was the heaviest ever cast against a proposal by Harry Truman...
...shines through thick steel castings as if they were made of ice. But it will do other, even more interesting things. A silver half-dollar, for instance, held briefly in its beam, becomes dangerously radioactive. The rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...
...frowned on. "The small son of that great actress, Mrs. Kendall," he recalled, "on his first day at . . . school . . . was asked by an elder boy, 'Your mother is an actress, isn't she?' He replied with spirit: 'If you say that again I will knock you down...