Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General MacArthur sprang his surprise. U.S. troops, he announced, were fighting in the vicinity of Buna. Evidently the dirty, sweating U.S. Army engineers had hacked a crude road through the world's wettest, highest jungle, enabling combat troops to cross the mountains on the Australians' flank and knock at the Japs' back door. More troops came in planes which landed on a natural strip discovered in the jungle. Said General MacArthur: "The Allied forces now control all of Papua except the beachhead in the Buna-Gona area...
Bombings: "If the enemy thinks he can wear us down, he errs. And I assure you the hour will come when I will strike back with compound interest. They will learn over there that German inventive genius has not been idle and they will get an answer which will knock them deaf and blind...
...McGovern, 54, famed body builder to Broadway and Wall Street; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A onetime flyweight fighter, he did fairly well as a gym instructor till 1925, then shot to fame by reconditioning Babe Ruth, who came out of a slump of 25 home runs to knock out 47 next season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position). Jack Dempsey, Gene...
...Hersey reached Guadalcanal it was strafed by Jap Zeros. The day before he left he watched the Marines shoot down eight of 27 Jap bombers trying to knock out our airfield-and he took off the day the Jap cruisers first ventured inshore to shell the American beachhead by daylight...
...news: although bowling has been encouraged by the Government's Physical Fitness program, priorities may soon knock the pins from under it. Because the wooden blocks used for the manufacture of bowling pins are the same size as those used for shoe lasts, much of the wood formerly earmarked for the bowling industry is now going to Army & Navy shoemakers-both at home and abroad. U.S. bowlers can count on pins for only a twelvemonth...