Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Harry Brubaker dies. He dies trying to make it back to his carrier after helping to knock out the bridges at Toko-ri. But in his last minute of life, "he was no longer afraid nor was he resentful. This was the war he had been handed by his nation, and in the noonday sun he had only one thought: he was desperately in love with his wife and kids and he wanted to see them one more time . . . Harry Brubaker understood in some fragmentary way the purpose of his being in Korea...
...Free Back." At length, at 6 o'clock one morning came the knock on his door. He told the two Gestapo men who had come to get him that they would have to give him two hours to himself or carry him bodily through the streets; then he spent the time writing to his daughter in England and paying all his bills...
Within the rather contrived framework of a sideshow stand, where the customers try to knock down figures of assorted sins, the picture illustrates each transgression in turn. Avarice and Anger are embodied in a vignette about a greedy landlord, his wife and a poor tenant. Sloth tells how St. Peter dispatches a female emissary from heaven to slow down the feverish life on earth. In Lust, an adolescent girl is disillusioned when her mother has an affair with a roving artist. All three episodes are commonplace in writing and direction...
Sacred? Yes, the right to hold our hands up in defense of God and freedom for all peoples to live without having some one knock in the door, without a barbed wire frontier...
Battleground Ahead. With this kind of bounce and zest, the top brass looks forward to the fast-approaching day of a buyers' market in cars. They think that will be their chance to make the Ford car once more the No. i seller, knock out Chevrolet. At present, G.M. and Ford are selling all the Chevvys and Fords they can make. Since G.M. has greater productive capacity, it can turn out more Chevvys than Ford can make Fords...