Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood can claim no credit for the shattering magnificence of the combat scenes in Task Force. But for the sharp-eyed selection, and the patient cutting and pasting which brings history roaring back into vivid, living focus, it can claim a knockout...
...very interested to read that General Bradley's men "delivered the final knockout to the Nazi's Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month" [TIME...
...course the earlier Allied effort set the stage for the knockout...
...longest throw in Academy history. A stateside captain in World War I, he spent the "next 25 years trying to explain why I didn't get overseas." He began World War II as a division commander, ended up with four armies under him. His armies delivered the final knockout to the Nazis' Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month. Ernie Pyle broke his own ban against writing about Army brass to eulogize this general with the schoolmasterish manner, "so unanimously loved...
...Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard on a technical knockout. In spite of the human virtues which had denied Ezzard Charles the true killer instinct of the great fighter, he looked like the best heavyweight in the game...