Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paunchy and thin-lipped, looking more like a schoolteacher than a road-gang boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged for him, grabbing at his revolver...
...knock at the door of the Interstate Commerce Commission sounded familiar. It sounded like the urgent rap of a man who knew his rights and wanted them fulfilled. It was the railroads again. Last year they had come seeking a 20% rate increase. They got 17.6%-a $1 billion boost in their annual revenues...
...story of her harum-scarum voyage, well and engagingly told, was first published in England in 1939, but smothered by the war along with other travel books by leisurely private adventurers. If armchair circumnavigators are now willing to knock about under sail without even wireless aboard, much less radar, the Cap Pilar is their craft...
Creative Mood. In Amherst, Mass., the University of Massachusetts investigated the causes of a production slowdown in chicken coops, decided it had found one trouble, advised farmers to knock politely in future, before bursting in on the hens at work...
...time. So had John Snyder. Clark Clifford agreed. They could think of several reasons for vetoing: Congress had not yet completed action of major appropriation bills, did not yet know how much revenue it would need; tax cuts now might exert new inflationary pressures; future foreign commitments would probably knock all budget plans into a cocked hat. But tax reduction was a political inflammable, and dangerous to tamper with. Truman's veto of the tax bill might singe his political fingers. Asked Manhattan's Daily News: "Will Truman shoot Santa Claus...