Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imposing as the B-29 forces under Curt LeMay had become, it was only a part of the power to be turned against Japan in a vast offensive that even more conservative airmen hoped would knock the enemy out of the war before...
...which he bombarded with a stream of neutrons. The explosion which occurred when the uranium atom finally split was, proportionately, the greatest man-made blast in history; it released 200 million electron-volts. But because the source and volume were so small, the shock was not enough to knock a fly off the wall. As war overtook the world, the problem of releasing atomic energy in quantity, as for a bomb, still remained unsolved...
...around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags his hand in the twanging spring of a devastated sofa, Mamie Fleagle Johnson (Marjorie Main) assassinates flies with a bull whip, and her third husband, a mad scientist (Porter Hall), suggests that perhaps he'd better knock together another coffin...
Enemy opposition to the Superfort attacks, while still stout, has begun to show signs of weakening. Flak remains heavy, but not uniformly so; fighter opposition on most recent assaults has been light. But in the drive to knock out Japan's industry, the B-29s will now face a new enemy: weather. Between June and September, eastern Japan's rainiest season, the air will be warm, moist and thick with clouds. Inevitably, more bombing will have to be done by instruments and will be correspondingly less accurate, but there will be no lightening of the bomb loads...
...yardstick of 1½ tons of steel per automobile was the best measure of production that WPB had to work with. But a sudden boost in military demand for steel would knock the automobile production schedule galley-west. Contrariwise, sharp and not wholly unexpected cuts in military needs later this year would mean more steel for automobiles...