Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space, not as an area for headlines but as a vantage point to study such hardheaded items as meteorology, geodesy, radio communications. The Air Force must know how radar waves act in space, how nuclear warheads will explode in space to prepare for future battles in space, i.e., to knock down the enemy's missiles. Also, the Air Force is working beyond ballistic missiles to develop glide missiles-weapons that follow a ballistic trajectory through space, break back into the atmosphere under control, dodge antimissile missiles and put an H-bomb on the target. Then, perhaps, there will...
...time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...
...couldn't knock me off the top of the pile," Mayor Sullivan said in a victory statement. "The citizens of Cambridge believe in Sullivanism and in Sullivan service," he stated. Alan Steinert, former head of the CCA, led a campaign against "Sullivanism," the mayor said, but the fact that the voters of Cambridge kept him on top of the ticket indicates that hey approve of his regime...
...clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard the earth. The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays was an instructive hour, much less vulgar in its popularization than Hemo the Magnificent, but it could have done with less sugar-coating ("These science dicks will knock ya for a loop!"), even for the sweet tooth of the bubble-gum brigade...
There was a knock on the door, and in came the tea and cinnamon toast, on wheels. "Apparently I was never very attractive to Hasty Pudding, and this hurt me. And when I had a national number song hit in my senior year--that was Coquette-- they wouldn't touch...