Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trustworthy. And once you're asleep in your own Anderson it's not too bad because you're so tired you don't give a damn anyway. The bad time is the in-between time. From the moment you knock off you are on edge. Christ, it's all very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there are things a bloke has to do in the meantime. And even at home-lumme, I like that word for the way I live-there are letters to write and socks...
Said he: "It's strictly fun. . . . I like to knock the enemy down and the only question that ever flashed across my mind is whether he'll be blown or fried" (exploded in mid-air or burned...
Unless you're a timeaddict or have let Henry Luce spoil your fun with his picture mag, you'll find Paramount's MacMurray-Stanwyck-Edward G. Robinson thriller good and exciting entertainment, although you may be able to knock a few dents in the plot. James M. Cain writes tough, sharp prose, and judging from "Double Indemnity," his stuff makes even better moviegoing than reading...
...bombing, the Allies did their best to knock down the robot-launching platforms around Calais. When the invasion troops closing on Cherbourg captured two platforms almost intact, British experts moved in at once to study them. However, the platforms were heavily camouflaged, often tucked away in the corners of woods. Others may have been dug into cliffs in bombproof positions...
...enemy's plan had long been apparent. It was to secure the Peiping-Hankow-Canton railroad, firmly establish the Empire's equivocal hold on southeast China east of the railroad, knock out U.S. air bases there, and try to make the coast impregnable to U.S. attack. It was also to supplement sea supply lanes under fire from Chennault and American naval attack. But only in the last four weeks had the enemy decisively written his plan in military action...