Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ancoats daughter-and the only child whose name was not duplicated in Chorlton. Word of the slip got to Emily, the Chorlton wife. Emily sent her eldest son to follow his father when he left home, and before William knew it, there was Emily, his Chorlton wife, knocking at the door of his Ancoats home. William was puttering about the kitchen when Elsie, his Ancoats wife, answered the knock. "Can I see William, my husband?" said Emily to Elsie. "William," answered Elsie, "is my husband...
...propped on a suitcase beside the bed. Before he is dressed, cars come honking down a narrow street usually disturbed only by the clump of a cart or a delivery boy's whistle, and men in leather coats and caps, or in ill-fitting tradesmen's suits, knock on the door of the big red brick house. A grocer who is now a Deputy of France lets them in, where they find their leader munching on a breakfast of bread and a tangerine...
Twining's answer: "Yes. But I must qualify this. The greater our margin of superiority, the more quickly we could win the air battle. If we could knock out the enemy's capability to hit the U.S., let us say the instant his bombers taxi out to hit us, the U.S. would lose no cities. If it took us a day, the U.S. might have X numbers of bombs dropped on it. If it took us a week, the U.S. might have 2X bombs dropped on it. And if it took us a month, the U.S. might have...
...common-cold vaccine. Since a cold, unlike other virus diseases, e.g., measles, yellow fever, polio, confers only the briefest immunity against reinfection, there seems little chance that an effective vaccine can be prepared. Dr. Dingle's best bet: a drug, still to be discovered, that will knock out the elusive common-cold virus...
...dispersed widely, a few or one to each launching site. They can be hidden to a considerable extent, they are potentially mobile, they can be put underground. For the cost of a few B-52 bases, the U.S. can have several hundred sites, and the enemy would have to knock all of them out to be safe from retaliation...