Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nasty terrain!" exclaimed the Prime Minister, looking down on some of the desert of French North Africa. "What would happen if we couldn't go on?" "Knock the kite around a bit, but nobody'd get hurt," Ruggles guessed...
...years Polish-born Frank Zarzeski has worked in front of an open hearth in a Chicago steel mill. Tired, eternally grimy, Frank Zarzeski still gets mad. Said he: "I think we should open second front now. Knock hell out of Hitler. I hate Hitler. We make lots of stuff here. We get him some...
...this mansion had come many men: the lordly rulers of India, the sycophants, the rebels and the humblest peasants of the field. Here Nehru longed to return from the squalor and the wranglings in Bombay. Then came a knock at the door. Quickly Nehru's Oxford-educated daughter, Indira, ran to open it. She expected radio men setting up a microphone for a broadcast that Nehru was to make to the U.S. But the callers were not radio men. They were British police...
...headlines-but if Russian soldiers knew his name, they would give him prayerful thanks every day. His job is to get WPB's Lend-Lease aid on to Russia-bound ships; Russians who come to the U.S. to get non-military help such as locomotives and machine tools knock first on Harry Hopkins' door, then wind up talking to Rhetts. He wangles the goods off U.S. production lines, fights the Army to get clearance, gets the goods to the docks. In a city noted for men afraid to run with the ball unless they have a legal release...
...knock out an enemy artillery has to shoot fast. Tanks won't wait. French artillery seldom got a bead on German spearheads. As recently as last year, it took about 30 minutes for divisional artillery to fire effectively on a target. Now U.S. artillery has learned how to do the trick in less than five minutes...