Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cynical Brooklyn voters, knowing the New Deal will be solidly behind the President's Little Flower, thought Ed Flynn was probably setting up Brooklyn's O'Dwyer just to knock him over...
...name for himself-Knifey. "Bernie has always been a bad boy," said Anna Sawicki. "I'm sorry I ever took him in-he'd be better off dead." Once he told his foster mother: "Don't ever put a hand on me, or I'll knock your teeth...
...time Jax turns a fledgling loose in a "yellow peril" (primary trainer), the Navy has fashioned him into the rough framework of a seagoing man. He says "Knock off the chatter" when he means shut up, "shove off" when he means leave, calls the floor "the deck," tells you to "bear a hand" instead of hurry up, describes things as "squared away" when they are in order. From 5 a.m. reveille to 9 p.m. taps, he takes orders and gets little thanks. He learns not to resent the peremptory nature of commands, comes to see that brusqueness and military efficiency...
...Shortly Joe left for Chicago to try to settle this one. ∽∽ Meantime, Billy Conn, the almost-champ, pulled a sneak wedding to 19-year-old Mary Louise Smith, went into hiding at Promoter Mike Jacobs' home in Rumson, N.J. Reason: her father had threatened to knock Billy silly if they did it. ∽∽ Marion Talley finally won a divorce from her music-teacher husband, whose countersuit had credited eight assorted lovers to the onetime star of the Metropolitan (who later reduced on and for Ry-Krisp). A Los Angeles judge listened to the evidence seven weeks...
...first two rounds, The Kid did just what the experts had said he would: he jabbed and danced away like an elusive shadow. He was so nervous he even tripped and fell. In the third round, after Louis had nailed him but failed to knock him down, Conn began to grin scornfully at the champ...