Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a sense of comfort even religion cannot afford that I read in TIME (May 15) the fine article on "handsome, patrician Joseph Clark Grew." For so long you have described and accented the personal defects of politicians, statesmen, actors & actresses, and other persons of prominence as "bowlegged or knock-kneed, or hair-lipped or cross-eyed, or bald or paunchy" that it is a real and solid pleasure to know that Ambassador Grew is "handsome and patrician," and . . . makes me feel that my belief and faith in TIME as a pleasure-giving, information-gathering publication has not been misplaced...
...Sitwell Sitwell, an 18th-Century baronet who once hunted an escaped Bengal tiger over the Yorkshire moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
...Peace. Joe Day's discoveries about selling real estate coincided with the northward expansion of Manhattan. As he progressed from one "biggest deal in history" to the next, feature writers repeated the Joseph P. Day legends over & over. He was the man who used no gavel to knock down his sales, but had the auction block padded to keep his right hand from fracturing; the man who relaxed his nerves by quaffing pineapple juice and having two strong-arm men grip his arms and his heels and try to pull him apart; the man who invariably breakfasted on acidophilus...
...world's commercial air business before the war. But there should at least be an international body to set up technical flying standards (meteorology, landing-field and safety specifications, etc.). ¶ Government subsidies should be kept at a minimum and never used, as Berle put it, "to knock someone else...
Lucky and Valiant. Around South Pacific bars, MacDonald's O'Bannon became a legend. In June 1943, Admiral Halsey began the drive to knock the Japs out of the rest of the Solomons. The O'Bannon was in the thick of that campaign. She was with the outnumbered cruiser task force which plowed into the dark hole of Kula Gulf to intercept and destroy nine to eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers. That was the night the great cruiser Helena was lost (TIME...