Word: knockouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second point of attack is the primary in September, when the Governor will try for a knockout by backing anti-Hague candidates, men who supported the railroad-tax revision. If Edison's men win, their victory may imperil Boss Hague's grip on the State Democratic machine, which usually carries only two or three of the State's 21 counties but rolls up a majority of more than 100,000 in Hague's Hudson County-enough to insure the Boss' Statewide rule. Informed that Edison was already taking the field for a series of speeches...
...Chesterfield. Cool and calculating Zivic, instead of knocking him out, jabbed at the doughboy's face until it looked like a gooey cherry pie. By the tenth round Davis was a helpless mess, bleeding from eyes, nose and mouth. Referee Arthur Donovan mercifully stepped in, awarded a technical knockout to Champion Zivic...
...World War I ended Germany has systematically plotted France's downfall, through treason in high places, through the venality of the Paris press, through espionage facilitated by France's leaders. M. Chéradame says the French leaders would not listen to him when he urged a knockout blow at Italy when World War II began. With Italy out, he thinks, the Allies could have established a Balkan front and kept Germany fighting on two fronts. Instead Weygand's Army sat in Syria, threatening not Germany but Russia. Thus the Fifth Column destroyed France and the Franco...
...Yoga-trained Lou Nova, 26: a heavyweight prize fight against 32-year-old Max Baer, onetime world's champion; by a technical knockout in the eighth round; after Madcap Max had shot his bolt, was too weary to get out of Nova's way; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
...muscle journalism, Walter Howey (now editor of Boston Hearstpapers). Carson at that time was day city editor of the Chicago Tribune, under Editor Captain Joe Patterson. Howey wanted him for the Herald & Examiner. When Carson refused to come over Howey plotted with a mutual actor friend to put knockout drops in Carson's drink at a Loop bar. Then he took the doped editor home, guided his inert hand through a Tribune resignation and a Herald & Examiner contract. Carson honored the contract...