Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aberdeen's Dr. D. R. MacCalman had an even simpler theory: children were being spoiled by the rod. "Parents and teachers proceed joyfully to knock hell out of the little blighters. And what can the little blighters do but wait till they are big enough to do likewise? Children so brought up are, as adults, aggressive and violent...
...also taken a while for McCarthy's highly touted boys to realize that they had to run to catch fly balls, take a healthy swing to knock a ball out of the infield, hustle to throw an opposing batter out at first...
...five-room houses in zero weather (though much of the engine's exterior is cool). From the air intake in its snout, invisible hooks reach out; their suction will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding jet of gas pushes against the test stand with a two-ton thrust. If the engine were pointing upward and left unshackled, it would take off like a rocket, each pound of its weight overbalanced by more than two pounds...
Konspiratsia. At 11 p.m. the night of June 13, wrote Bigart, there was a knock at the door of his room in Belgrade's Hotel Moskva. "A young man of perhaps 20 ... pushed past me ... fell into a chair . . . 'Comrade,' he began, 'you had planned to return to Athens via Rome. Instead you will go via free Greece and interview General Markos. Is that agreeable?' Very tentatively, I said...
...years ago Drs. Arthur G. Schoch and Lee J. Alexander of Dallas' Syphilis and Venereal Disease Clinic started looking for a quick way to knock out syphilis while it is still in the incubation stage. They think they have found it. Their "abortive treatment" consists of injection of 900,000 units of penicillin, three cubic centimeters of bismuth ethylcamphorate, 0.05 to 0.06 grams of arsenoxide. The drugs cost only one-tenth of the full penicillin treatment, and the injections take only five minutes. Out of 148 patients who had been in contact with known syphilitics, 127 were under observation...