Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again and again the U.S. had resolutely turned its back upon the other shore of the Pacific. Again and again came a reminding nudge or knock. Quemoy was no Pearl Harbor-not the stuff that touches off wars. But it was, perhaps, part of the stuff of which wars are made. It is an island held by the Nationalist Chinese-Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese-and the U.S. had every right to send Medendorp there as part of a military mission advising and aiding Chiang in what he sees clearly-and the U.S. sees unclearly-as a struggle...
...strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied his new hold to those in the audience who disapproved of his tactics...
...Knock on the Door. In 1940, just before Christmas, there came the ineviable knock on the door. At the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, the Nazis knocked out Grüber's front teeth. At Dachau, they threw his body on a pile of corpses after a heart attack had left him more dead than alive...
...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...
...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...