Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sukhumi, he manipulated some 300 divisions. Every man or woman who could walk was either in the army or in a war factory. Factories in the Urals were pouring out tanks and guns. Vital supplies of ammunition, aircraft, gasoline and trucks were arriving from the Allies. Zhukov began to knock the stuffing out of the Wehrmacht...
While lagging on their own rearmament for 4½ years, the Japanese have recently been shelling out up to $155 million a year to help support the U.S. troops stationed on their islands. In his demagogic election campaign, Japan's Premier Ichiro Hatoyama boasted that he would knock $55 million off the bill and spend the money on social welfare. The U.S. told Hatoyama it would accept the cut, if the Japanese put all the savings into their own rearmament. Last week, after 30 days of tense bargaining...
Aldrich said the defense had referred improperly to the January of 1954 testimony to determine the questions McCarthy was investigating. "I cannot permit the defense to set up, and then knock down, a straw man," he stated...
POLITICAL DUST-UP over CAB attempts to knock two small Alaskan airlines out of their profitable Stateside routes (TIME, Jan. 3) has raised such a furor that CAB has now decided to let them alone. It will recommend that both Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Airlines continue to operate into Seattle and Portland along with the big lines, Pan American and Northwest...
...dissension over the case, the Justice Department struck back strongly at the Peters arguments, defending the government's unrestricted right to dismiss employees without a formal judicial process and without interference by the Federal judiciary. A Supreme Court judgement against the government, one Justice Department official said forebodingly, "would knock the whole security program galley-west...