Word: knockoute
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...able fighter named Red Cochrane had the title frozen. When it came time to defend it last February, Red passed up Sugar Ray, who was first in line, fought one Marty Servo, who had put up $50,000 for the chance. Marty took the title by a knockout. Last week Sugar Ray was 1-to-5 betting favorite to whip Marty Servo...
...everything was not quite as simple as that. Revaluation had already dealt what might be a knockout wallop to Canada's gold-mining industry, just getting back on its feet from the war slowdown. And it might hit the tourist trade, which annually pours some $150,000,000 into Canada. U.S. tourists will no longer get $1.10 for their U.S. dollars. But if fewer tourists come because of the lost premium, Canada will lose some badly needed dollar exchange...
...Knockout. In Atlantic City, Photographer Joseph Drilling, filming a beauty contest, fell dead...
...courtroom where Jap war criminals were being tried, spectators stood stiffly at attention as the judges filed out for the noon recess. The marshal of the court, Captain Donald S. Van Meter, rose and solemnly announced: "For the benefit of English-speaking persons, Louis won over Conn by a knockout in the eighth round...
...security): 1) instead of only one type of penicillin, there are at least four (arbitrarily named G, F, X, K); 2) type K is virtually useless because it is destroyed within the body so fast (in less than an hour) that it can't get set for a knockout punch at the germs. In trying to produce a purer form of penicillin, drug companies had inadvertently made a product with high K content. (Commercial penicillin is a mixture of two to four types...