Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal hauled the top brass and the top braid off to the seclusion of Key West and Newport, ostensibly-so the reports said-to knock the big heads together. But on close inspection, the big heads emerged not even bloody, much less unbowed. Was "unification" a failure...
Said Douglas: "It is from the lips of American labor that Europe can most readily learn how democracy and freedom can be peacefully achieved in a framework of government . . . Doors tightly closed to all others may open at its knock ... It can prove by its own accomplishments that human welfare and progress can be achieved without class warfare." And at home, labor must take the lead in working with industry to assure maximum production and full employment...
Club bowling started Tuesday. The girls knock down the tenpins at the Bowl-Away in the Square every Tuesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. Nina Emerson '50 is in charge of bowling...
...just after the family tea, Elizabeth's pains began. Nurse Rowe rushed her to the delivery room and summoned Sir William. Within an hour three more doctors had slipped into the palace by the electricians' gate in the rear. Philip went moodily down to knock a squash ball around the palace court...
Despite the muscling-in operations of Captain Marvel and his ilk, Superman remains champion of radio fantastics. He has even reduced a comic-book rival--Batman--to a subordinate position in the Superman show. Batman is permitted to knock off a minor thug once in a while, and occasionally rescue some imperilled citizen, but he is clearly inferior to Superman. In private life--that is, when Superman becomes "mild-mannered Clark Kent," a newspaper reporter--Batman turns out to be the publisher of the newspaper, but this is just...