Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round preliminary bout on the Braddock-Louis championship card in June 1937. That he would not last four rounds against the Brown Bomber was the general prediction. Some openly complained that he had no right in the same ring with Louis, that his best punch could hardly knock down Joe's little sister Eulalie...
Suppose a reporter from here, assigned to cover TIME, should poke his nose into the composing and press rooms, take a gander around the circulation and advertising departments; should then knock out an article which magnified the mechanical side, said little about your main job-reporting and writing ? We don't believe you'd feel grateful for that kind of coverage, thankful that you had been treated fairly...
...showy lot, but none matches the official simplicity of Jacksonian Mr. Secretary Hull. At Montevideo for his first major Latin American conference, an hour after the boat docked, with hat in hand he was trudging about the town, informally calling on the delegates, meticulously mispronouncing their names. He would knock on the door, say "I'm Hull of the U. S." and begin chatting. Astounded, then charmed by this informality, delegates from the banana republics laid aside their silk hats and silk manners, forgot their jealousy and hatred for the Colossus of the North...