Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospect of parenthood can disable a man more thoroughly than it does his wife-particularly if he is unstable to begin with. If he is in the armed forces, it can knock him out of the order of battle as mercilessly as an enemy bullet. These are the conclusions (reported in the Armed Forces Medical Journal) that Psychiatrist James L. Curtis reached after studying fathers at New York's Mitchel Air Force Base...
EISENHOWER'S offer is said to be a smart move. It surely wasn't a smart move if Mr. Eisenhower had any expectation that it would be accepted. [It] would give the soviet war planners precisely the information they most need if they are to knock us out with a surprise attack. This plan was put forward not to be accepted but to be rejected. By this means we are to prove to the world the insincerity of Russian pretensions and thus gain a great propaganda advantage. That is, we are to prove Russian insincerity by demonstrating...
...parody of the "last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed dog is led off to be destroyed. The film's big terror scene takes place in a baby's bedroom, where valiant Tramp kills a red-eyed rat, even though he has to knock over the crib and dump the baby on the floor...
Springing the prisoner is no more trouble than Hollywood usually finds it. Clark and a couple of pals simply sail up the Pearl River to Canton, sneak ashore, knock two or three Red guards on the head, open the door of precisely the right cell, and escape to freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway...
Right Behind You. In Buffalo, when strapping Charles Schutt, 16, arraigned on a petty-larceny charge, threatened to strike back if his father tried to discipline him. Judge James B. McKenna advised the father: "If he fights back, knock his teeth out. The law will protect...