Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, there began a knocking on doors and giggling and cooing, out of which some specific facts could be garnered. After one knock that went unanswered (Kilte: "That's the popular girl in the hall. She's the one that has dates."), a Vassar girl appeared. Inevitably the question came: "How do you like Harvard men?" And the answer: "They're all right, but the Navy is attractive, too, and much more ever-present...
Lamar has also begun instruction in basic Jiu Jitsu tactics, stressing punches outside the regular rules of boxing which can be used to knock out an opponent with one blow...
Fame, beer, and the exciting career of journalism will knock at the door of every '45 man next Monday night, when the ivy-covered sanctum on Plympton Street opens its doors for its 210th competition and open house...
...part of a larger sea & air action. By heavily escorted convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...
...that almost impossible feat, a great war picture that photographs the inner meaning, instead of the outward realism of World War II. Director William Wyler succeeds by the simple device of setting up an ideal middle-class English family in an ideal middle-class home, letting the Nazis knock both down. Result: what the Nazi bombers finally smash is not a house and household but (temporarily) man's hope of happiness...