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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, savagely, the full force of the German blow was unleashed. Its suddenness, its underrated force, sent the Americans reeling like a boxer who has taken a terrific punch to the solar plexus. The Germans followed through, hoping to corner the Americans, to knock out the U.S. First Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Body Blow | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...Grips on Land. The purpose of the invasion was not to knock out Germany at one blow. If the mere establishment and holding of Allied beachheads should discourage the Nazis to the point of capitulation, well and good. There were extreme optimists (later developments were to prove how extreme they were) who hoped for that outcome. But in the realistic battle plan, the purpose of the gamble was to bring the forces of the western Allies to grips with Nazi Germany on her western land approaches. When that purpose was completely achieved, affable, incisive, confident "Ike" Eisenhower became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fate of the World | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Puppet Pedagogy | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Well, we're serving fruit and nuts and giving codles of free gifts up in Chase C-36 on Christmas Eve. Just bring your wallet and a se--a beautiful blonde and knock three times. We'll know Joe sent you. Oh yes, send her in second so the wrong person doesn't got clubbed to death...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: Lucky Bag-- | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

...down a tactical preparation (causing some U.S. casualties), and he had not only regiments but divisions attacking in column. Bradley also designed the Argentan-Falaise pincers, and the scythelike sweeps to the Seine which ruined the German Seventh Army. His rush to the German border was a bid to knock out German resistance once & for all, before his supply lines snapped. He was philosophical about not winning that one: nobody can win them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Destroy the Enemy | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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