Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former WAVE officers who were indoctrinated at Smith during World War II will be impressed with the new Smith dormitory [Nov. 17]. How about the bathroom facilities? In my WAVE group, 13 women used one tub, one toilet, and one basin, with the result that a knock on the door once brought this shouted response from within: "There's one in, one on, and one at-stay...
...action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon effort to make friends and influence people...
...team that can take the title by itself. Cornell, Princeton and Penn all need help from someone else to finish first. There is an advantage to rooting for the scoreboard, however, for Penn and Princeton will be playing cellar teams in Columbia and Yale today, while Cornell and Dartmouth knock heads together...
...missile to be tested in real combat is the Navy's Sidewinder, which was adopted by the Air Force and used to equip Chinese Nationalist Sabre jets flying out of Formosa (TIME, Oct. 6). During one air operation against the Chinese Communists, the Nationalists used Sidewinders to knock down an estimated ten Red jets while coming off unscathed themselves. The Sidewinders given to the Chinese were an early model, but their general design, with improvements, is still...
...left it a smoking wreck, Chiang made up his mind. Quemoy could never be saved by bigger and better convoys, he argued. Under the hail of Communist fire, the convoys could never be made big enough to keep the island supplied. The only solution, he insisted, was to knock out the Communist guns. He proposed to do it with Nationalist planes. All he asked was U.S. consent...