Word: knockoute
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...precedent, military historians looked back to the classic battles of landbound days, and wondered if this might be the stage when the weaker side had committed its reserves and was failing. Then the stronger would strike the knockout blow. He would send in his cavalry, ripping through the flagging line, then pour infantry through the breach while his horsemen drove on, carving a decision in the enemy's disorganized rear areas...
...Eighth Air Force's "heavy cavalry."* But as the most powerful air offensive in history rolled through its third week, the Luftwaffe was behaving exactly like a fighter who finds the going too rugged, knows instinctively that he must break off or risk exhaustion and knockout...
...case anyone should mention art." Tony Galento, twice licked by a fighter whose first name was Art, managed after 80 minutes' rehearsal to garble the following prepared opinion: "The perspective is distorted and the subordination of technic to composition is indubitably fatuous." The event was an acknowledged knockout for the editors of Click, who arranged...
...checked, and the ornate walls were repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few feet above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knockout punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow. It's the blue-lighted anatomical solos which bring...
...Knockout. A dignified, hawk-faced little man (5 ft. 5 in.) of 55, who takes his museum as seriously as if it were the Smithsonian, boxing's foremost expert and historian is no boxer himself. He fought his last fight at the age of 14 in a Boys' Club exhibition and was knocked out in the first round. He has revered the ring ever since. As boxing writer and sports editor on the old New York Press and on Munsey papers, and since 1922 as editor of Ring, he has seen 10,000 fights, picked up first-hand...