Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally came a long-awaited knock. Antonescu, elegant, overbearing in his uniform of self-appointed marshal and "conductor of Rumania," strode into the room. The young man pressed the Dictaphone button, and turned to face the visitor...
Equally serious was the threat to Rank as a producer. If U.S. producers, who also control almost 80% of the first-run outlets, decided to retaliate, they could knock Rank out of the U.S. market. U.S. movie men's hopes centered on Rank, who could be expected, they thought, to use his influence with the British Government to bring U.S. movies back to Britain...
Certainly not John Lewis, was the inference, and there was evidence to support it. First, he had forced the operators to knock the old no-strike clause out of the coal contract. That would prevent any damage suits for breach of contract under the Taft-Hartley Act. Then, to make sure that mine operators would not go running to the NLRB for help, he had wangled a provision that disputes would be settled in union-management conference...
...Catholic Secretary of the Irish Anti-Partition League, contributed his bit toward the sweetness & light that marked the occasion. Said Mr. Conlon: "No doubt the Orangemen put on a grand show. I'd like to see it myself, except that someone would probably recognize me and try to knock my block...
Successful Debris. Previous cyclotrons, they explained, had just chipped away at the atom, knocking off two or three small particles. But the 184-incher's bullets cause such havoc in atoms that researchers have so far been unable to sort out all the debris. Said one of the California scientists: "With the old cyclotron of 225 tons [60 inches], we could knock two or three floors off a 50-story building, or maybe add a floor or two. But with the new cyclotron, we can knock that 50-story building into a flock of four-room bungalows, with...