Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorry necessities of scorched-earth tactics knock the spots out of such delicate installations as radio stations. On such sturdy things as oil wells and naval bases they are only partly effective. From the Tokyo radio last week, the United Nations, already aware that the Japanese had refitted Singapore, heard details of their rebuilding farther south...
...after Pearl Harbor, he changed tack, declared: "But we will get better and stronger every day, and we will not have to get very good and very strong to knock the everlasting daylights out of Japan...
...Germans. To them the Riom trial was becoming an "international scandal." It was proving why the French were not able to knock the Germans back to Berlin in 1940. But it was not showing, as it was supposed to show, that guilty, warmongering France was prepared for her proper place in Europe's "New Order." From D.N.B.'s diplomatic correspondent in Berlin came an almost frenzied reminder that "whether this or that politician or this or that general is responsible for defeat is immaterial." The question, said D.N.B., is: "'Why did France declare war' on Germany...
Axis air raids on Malta have climbed to a new peak of intensity, renewing suspicion that Adolf Hitler may be concentrating on efforts to knock out Britain's central Mediterranean base before spring...
...Allies may be able to knock out the little men with the terribly long arms, but great diligence and terrific effort are now required...