Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third time in eight years, Cambridge's mayoralty election has become a knock-down, drag-out fight between warring factions in the City Council. The issue is not likely to be resolved at this afternoon's meeting, four councillors agreed last night...
...picture the moviegoer is offered the prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets lost on the West Side of Chicago and does not bother to go looking for himself. The script...
...very good dealer he is, with "an arm of pure gold," an eye like an ice pick, and a nylon line that pays out smooth and hauls the suckers in. But Frankie is a man who carries "a 40-lb. monkey on [his] back," and the only way to knock the monkey off is to get a shot of joy in the main vein. He kicks the habit when he does a stretch in stir, and swears off cards, too, when he comes out; he has learned the drums in prison, and he has a chance to try out with...
...Kidlington there are eleven staff members watching over 55 boys.) After breakfast and inspection, the younger boys attend classes; the older ones work about the grounds (with brief cocoa break at 11) until 11:55, break for lunch, return to a work detail until 4:25, when they knock off for tea. Evenings are devoted to metalworking, basket weaving or woodwork, with dinner at 8:10, followed by chapel and lights...
...tablet has been exaggerated way out of proportion," said Dr. Joseph J. Bunim, clinical director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. "Even though the hormone aspirin pills are a prescription drug, there is a real danger that the patient will get too much of them and knock out his adrenal glands. In many instances the patient won't realize he is not taking ordinary aspirin. In others he will enjoy the lift he gets from them and take more and more. In still others, the physician will respond to the pleadings of his patients and prescribe...