Word: knocked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bombs v. Shells. There was a second reason for the crisis: a miscalculation by the war planners. As in previous wars, the needs of the artillery had been vastly underestimated. Meanwhile, airmen, aircraft and airborne bombs had top priority. The airmen were not only asked to knock out German industry. They were also used as a swift, mobile artillery for the infantry. Thus, in the arsenals, artillery ammunition was cut back. But now the commanders restored artillerymen to their historic role of blasting the way for the infantry. At home, this meant a sudden shift back to production of artillery...
...Here is something startling. I am going to knock on wood . . . because it is still in the experimental stage." New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, on his weekly broadcast, then announced that the city's Public Health Research Institute had succeeded in immunizing laboratory animals against certain kinds of malaria parasites, a feat many experts believed impossible...
Allied war aims in Italy were to knock the Italians out of the war and then get the Germans out of Italy. In midstream these aims were changed. Now the purpose is to draw as many German divisions into Italy as possible, hold them there to prevent their use on other fronts. Unfortunately, the Allies have never had enough troops to complete the job ("at no time in the Italian campaign have the Allies had any but slight superiority in numbers") and the Germans have been clever at getting out of traps. Nevertheless the Germans have lost almost...
...Durham, N.C., 34,000 saw Duke knock Georgia Tech from the unbeaten ranks, 19-to-13, with a touchdown pass in the final quarter...
...Italians come to work at 8 or 9 in the morning, knock off at 1 for a three-hour lunch and siesta, resume work around 4 or 4:30. Government offices usually stay open until 7 or 8, despite anguished British-U.S. efforts to make the Italians conform to British-U.S. hours...