Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of this guaranteed victory to James Michael Curley. The old man liked it better when the ring was crowded; there was a choice of targets, and his opponents might knock each other out instead of him. Curley might yet be around to horrify Boston's reformers for another term...
Bestselling Novelist Willard (Knock on Any Door) Motley looked suspiciously like a mugger to Chicago police, as he prowled about the Gold Coast early one morning, absorbing local color. He talked strangely, too, after the cops picked him up. "I'm a jack-roller," he cracked, refusing to give his name, "but the pickings are pretty thin tonight." Later, at the station house, he let them in on the gag, and they let him off on $10 bond...
...unionists John L. Lowis and William Green. Lewis, always pretty much of a maverick, has been attacking Murray for dropping the fourth-round wage demands that the mineworkers are after. (They already have a non-contributory pension plan.) Green, AF of L head, is using the same reason to knock Murray's handling of the CIO--like Lewis, he doesn't think much of presidential fact-finding boards, and is using Murray's acceptance of the report as a club to attack...
...experts are backing up the Air Force. Almost all of the Navy's operations in the Pacific were tactical--knock-out-a beachhead-or-a-fleet affairs the carriers brought short-ranged planes up to where they could thoroughly work over their targets. In flying off planes which still have to light two or three-thousand miles to their targets, the required job in a lot of strategic bombing work, the carrier's real value, its ability to bring an airfield near the target, is severely...
...nine rounds, Rocky Graziano sat in his corner, his face smeared with blood and bewilderment.The reform-school graduate who used to thrill Manhattan crowds with his ferocious, windmill technique was losing his first major fight in New York after a three-year exile. "You've got to knock him out," warned his manager, while he smeared carpenter's wax on a cut above Rocky's left eye. Growled Graziano, impatiently: "I still got one round...