Word: knockouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boxing's biggest current attraction is a roughneck middleweight from Manhattan's tough Mulberry Street. Rocco ("Rocky") Graziano packed them in at Madison Square Garden last week for what fans thought would be his sixth straight knockout, a new Garden record. He fooled himself and the fans by winning on points from ex-Sailor Sonny Home...
...before last week's fight, the largest crowd since Primo Camera's day paid 35? apiece to watch Rocky prep for his go against Horne. At the Garden, 18,907 paid $108,974 to watch Rocky throw everything in the book at Boxer Horne, almost get his knockout in round 7. At the finish, a few fans booed. Said Rocky: "I win, didn...
...bore a somewhat overblown reputation as a "stonewall" defender in Italy. To Allied minds who know the Nazi mind best it appeared likely that Kesselring was chosen not primarily for his generalship, but as the commander who might best-from the Nazi point of view-take the Allied knockout punch or throw in the towel...
...Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson and Lieut. General Somervell. They want a tough, all-out war against Japan with a minimum of reconversion. Last week theirs were the voices WPB had to hear as it prepared for the fearsome job of refitting the U.S. production machine for the knockout blow against Japan. That blow would not be delivered in one swift assault; it might be many long months before it was struck. Meanwhile, the U.S. would go on living in a war economy that would be eased only a little after Germany ran up the white flag...
...Germany. No G.M. official has any authentic information about the damage done to Opel when the R.A.F. heavily bombed the plant twice last summer. But the obvious conclusion was that the damage reports by bomber pilots satisfied the economic warfare experts in London who had Opel marked for a knockout...