Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic Air Command under General Curtis LeMay. The theory was, and is, that SAC's poised heavy-bomber punch would either deter the Communists from attacking, or destroy Communist production centers if they did. Now, for the first time, the Reds may have strength enough to knock out SAC bases with a surprise blow. The U.S., unable to retaliate, would be doomed to destruction or surrender...
Just then a knock on the door was followed by the entrance of a middle-aged woman in a faded dress. "How are you, boys. I suppose its off for the holidays you'll be soon. I do hope that Santy will be good...
...Board of Overseers as Honorary Associates of Dudley Hall: Robert F. Bradford '23, former Governor of Massachusetts; Joseph S. Clark Jr. '23, Major of Philadelphia; and William L. White, a noted writer. But the impact of all these improvements ahs not, as yet, been forceful enough to completely knock away the stigma long attached to the commuter...
...anyone that I am conceited and possess a feeling of superiority over other men." Yet Ickes could describe his part in a political radio debate in these words: "He [Ickes' opponent] expected the head-down, arm-flailing rush, trying to beat him into a corner or to knock him out. Instead, I danced around him, fighting with my head instead of with my fists, with the result that I never came near enough so that he could deliver a blow to the body, although I kept tapping him on both head and body...
...observer," declared that China stood "shoulder to shoulder" with the Soviet Union. "That is why it is safe to state that if American aggressive circles dare to unleash a new war, they will suffer a fate worse than that suffered by Hitler. So, picking up a stone, they will knock off their own feet, and in the end will taste the bitter fruit of their own mistake," concluded Chang in a Chinese fricassee of metaphors. In other words, if the Soviet Union needed help in Europe, China pledged itself to supply it. "A very, very important result of the conference...