Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Americans who don't know what they are talking about, cricket is a British eccentricity hardly less pansy than croquet. Americans condemn the game because it moves too leisurely, has too much ritualistic etiquette, and the players actually knock off for tea at 4 o'clock. One ex-G.I. who had seen a game summed up: "Believe me, in New York we'd have thrown pop bottles just to wake things...
...Selman A. Waksman, streptomycin's discoverer, produced a sister drug named grisein from the same soil organism. Grisein's job: to knock out (with the help of streptomycin) bacteria that develop a resistance to streptomycin alone...
Despite threats of reprisal, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had confirmed the death sentence of Jewish Terrorist Dov Gruner. As promised, the terrorists struck. H. A. I. Collins, a director of a Palestine bank, was entertaining a young Jewish woman at tea when a knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled...
...Jerusalem the diggers were searching for truth in a city where every square yard is encrusted with stoutly defended legend. Recently they discovered evidence calculated to knock the props from under the holiest spot in Christendom, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre...
...buyers' market in used cars-and eventually in new cars as well-was uncomfortably close for dealers. And car prices were still high by prewar standards. Production of "1947 models" by General Motors and Ford in the next months, even though model changes were hardly noticeable, would knock used-car prices down still more...