Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blount technique can also be used for treating other deformities. In knock-knees, the staples are put on the inside of the bone near the knee; in bowlegs, on the outside. So far, Dr. Blount has used his stapling treatment on 57 patients. For 13, the treatment has ended successfully with removal of the staples...
Walter Murch is a man who loves to work at night, painting floodlit still lifes in a shadowy studio. "Sometimes I'll knock off to raid the icebox," he says, "but when I'm working I'm liable to forget the time altogether. Between the emotional kick and the visual kick, I feel suspended...
Wound Down. Guilden junked Waltham's method of selling through jobbers, in favor of direct sales to dealers, which saddled it with heavy new selling costs (and caused disgruntled jobbers to knock Waltham). He also threw out such .sidelines as speedometers, and discontinued cheap watches, to concentrate on expensive timepieces. Furthermore, his plant-like many in New England-was old and inefficient; his workers had had their wages almost tripled in seven years (78% of the cost of a watch is in labor), without a rise in productivity to make...
Congress hadn't given him enough authority to knock heads together, Forrestal said. Congress had empowered him only to set "general policies and programs," and to exercise "general direction, authority and control." For that he had himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
Coach Jack Barnaby got his "close and interesting game" when his varsity let the University Club team win only 11 of the 20 games, while Captain Jim McKittrick and Henry Foster came through to knock over their expectedly tough opponents...