Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom obviously did not understand what they saw and would have been depressed if they had. They saw a WPA Army leaning on its weapons-some of which, especially artillery, were not bad-stumbling through the motions of fighting, crawling clumsily around in the woods to try to knock off some determined, able fighters whom the camera never showed. The audiences saw Asiatic soldiers looking more soldierly than their European Russian comrades...
...political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics). By 1938, he had swung over to the opposition camp of Wang Ching-wei. By last week, though still working for Wang, he was leader...
...sense of frantic frustration was in Washington: men wanted to send whole fleets of planes to aid the Greeks, to help knock Italy out of the war. China actually begged for old U. S. trainer planes-anything, almost, that would...
...child should hold his mother's chair at table, fetch his father's hat, never shout upstairs, always knock before entering a bedroom...
...seems that all a drummer has to do these days to get himself recognized is to knock out a few thirty-two bar choruses full of technique and nothing else. I realize that it has a terrific commercial appeal: witness what Krupa's pyrotechnics did for the Goodman band three years ago. But at the same time, Krupa had something else on the ball, an intangible rhythmic sense that makes all the difference in the world between a good drummer and a lousy one. It's all right to play flash now and then. I get a lot of kicks...