Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane has also vastly increased the risk of offensive warfare, even with an overwhelming surface force. A few squadrons of land-based bombers with surprise and skill on their side can knock the stuffing out of a task force in a couple of hours' attack, as the Jap did when he swarmed down on the mighty Prince of Wales and Repulse...
...responsible airman was ready to hop up and announce that the British blitz against Germany was going to knock the Nazis out of the war. It had run in full power for only a few days. It had shown no more than the first signs that its local but effective destruction could be broadened until it might cut the heart out of German production and transportation, and out of the morale of the people...
...apartment doorman, pulling out three typewriters and an armload of packages, got in each other's way. Inside the apartment she found that the movers had not yet arrived with the first load; they never have. When they did get there, naturally, they decided to knock off for lunch before unloading. Mrs. Roosevelt went back uptown for her own lunch. She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho...
...tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
...this time tremendously. Last week, when it launched the Blackfish, Ebco also launched a new production record. In their rush to make subs faster, Ebco's hard-working employes gobble their lunch in 15 minutes, are usually ready to work before the preceding shift quits, no longer knock off to watch their own launchings...