Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second circuit around the Eastern League at 7 p.m. tonight in a well-filled gym in Hanover, New Hampshire. The game is a crucial one, for the Dartmouth team is one of the weakest teams in a very strong league, and if the still-victory-less Crimson cannot knock off the Indians, it will be a good but to finish last in the league...
...regular Democrats had taken a closer look and concluded that Estes Kefauver, although he is not strong with the professionals, is popular with more voters than the pros suspected. The organization men suddenly realized that Kefauver might knock out McMahon, and thus give the whole regular Democratic organization a bloody nose...
...Fighter Louis had won the first round of his "biggest fight" by being the first Negro ever to play in a P.G.A. co-sponsored tournament. Joe's ultimate strategy: to knock out the P.G.A. ban entirely, open the tournament doors to other qualified Negro golfers. This week Joe seemed to be winning his fight. The P.G.A. tournament committee voted to approve Negro participation in P.G.A. tournaments. There was still one minor hitch: Negro golfers will have to wait, as all non-touring P.G.A. pros do, for entry acceptance from the local sponsor. This week's local sponsor...
...from spent uranium, and this must be done by remote control, to avoid death by radiation. Here is a nightmarish glimpse of a future world of machines. The General Electric Co. people who run the plant have developed remote-control apparatus until it can do almost everything. It can knock down, service and put together whole production units that have grown fiercely radioactive. Sometimes the human operatives watch the job through three feet of special glass, sometimes through periscopes, sometimes by means of stereoscopic television. In the latter case, they can work from miles away; the radiation-resistant robots will...
...attack against U.N. troops and supply centers, how would allied antiaircraft perform? Probably not too well, at first. Reported TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "There are indications that some of the Red equipment is better than ours. Also, the first days of any Red attempt to knock us out of the air war would probably see our AA. come off a poor second to theirs, because our crews just haven't had the practice...