Word: knocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Germany's total sub fleet probably numbers 400, enabling her to keep 100 or more at sea all the time. The last announced convoy to land in Britain had to fight off 35 separate attacks. Until the United Nations knock out or otherwise neutralize that sub fleet, victory on land in this global war will be incalculably remote. The tide did not turn in World War I until Germany's U-boats were beaten and the ocean supply lines cleared. The ocean supply lines are even more vital to victory in World...
Seven months-and some new men-had made a startling difference. In May, WPB had been forced to cancel war contracts right & left: the planning had got out of hand, the program was overexpanded, raw-material supply was in a black mess. WPB and the Army were in a knock-down fight for authority...
NORTH AFRICA--American tanks and British infantry are consolidating their positions on ground re-won in the bitter tank battle of Tebourba, official dispatches said tonight, and the Morocco radio reported the Allies were laying down a fierce big gun barrage against Axis lines while building up for a knock-out punch in Tunisia...
...favorite indoor sports in those days were operating for hernia, breaking legs and thighs for bow legs, knock-knees, tying off hemorrhoids, opening psoas [loin] abscesses, subcutaneously operating for varicose veins, scarifying and chiseling osteomyelitis, traumatic amputations, trephinings [skull operations] for injuries, lifting breasts off for carcinoma and putting up fractures...
Hitler's 1942 campaign to knock Russia out of the war, to win oil and Lebensraum, had ended without having achieved a single important strategic objective. Leningrad and Stalingrad still stood at two ends of a ragged, frozen, 1,000-mile front...