Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Door, a thriller-which might have been written by Edgar Wallace-about two old maids in a lonely part of Britain. While church bells ring an invasion warning, the old maids find a dying parachutist in the bottom of their garden. A few moments later a British officer knocks at their front door. He has lost his way to the airport, wants to borrow a map. Having done their homework on the Ministry's invasion pamphlet the Misses Grant know enough to keep the officer talking until a tongue slip (he says "Yarvis" instead of Jarvis Hill) reveals...
Flowing Gold (Warner Bros.) opens with Johnny Blake (John Garfield) moodily waiting in line for a job with a handful of other oil-field "roughnecks." Soon a stranger justifiably snorts: "Boy, you sure got a chip on your shoulder," and Johnny snarls: "Want to try and knock it off?" From then on it is merely a question of waiting to see who hits whom with what...
...there was still plenty of evidence for the direct Channel attack. Big guns were not rolled up to Boulogne and other points to pock the barren cliffs of Kent; they were probably there to protect a landing. The Luftwaffe was very definitely still trying to knock out coastal airports to push back fighter resistance...
...This Time. . . ." But Frank Jackson bungled. Like Trotsky, he had lived in the twilight world of conspiracy. A peasant or a worker would have known that to knock a man out, you have to put your weight behind a blow. The pick was sharp. It cut through Trotsky's skull, but the blow was not hard enough. Trotsky did not slump, did not even realize that he had been hit on the head. He thought he had been shot. He leaped from his chair, grappled with his assailant, bit his hand. Even with a knife and a pistol...
...invader might pattern his advance by land on the thrust of gouty General Burgoyne down the Hudson in the Revolution. Mercilessly harried on his flanks as he moved south, luxury-loving Briton Burgoyne finally dug in near Saratoga, put his women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended the only invasion down the Hudson Valley that had even...