Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also served as a playground and basketball courts, there was very little time during the day that these courts were vacant ... so Mr. Searle had ample opportunity to look for ghoulish girls. As a contemporary of Mr. Searle's and an "old girl" of the high school, that knock-kneed, spotty-faced gargoyle wearing glasses, in the chem lab of St. Trinian's [see cut] could quite possibly...
...Small, Plain Woman. "If you were [my] daughter," one of Henry's bullies once bellowed at Mary, "I would beat you to death and knock your head against the wall till it was as soft as a baked apple." Before long it looked .as though Henry, regardless of Spain's warnings, intended just some such fate for Mary. Terrified, she begged the Spanish ambassador for advice, and he instructed her to save her head-if necessary by acknowledging her father as "Supreme Head'' of the Church of England and her mother's marriage as "incestuous...
...grand tour is never moralistic, never theological, always entertaining. The sins, presented as vignettes, are made by six groups of the finest cinema talent of France and Italy, and the framework for their presentation is a carnival doll representing each. A glib barker, Gerard Philippe, goads the crowds to knock each doll off its pedestal, and as each falls, the scene fades into the filmlets...
CANNON big enough to knock down heavily armored enemy planes may soon replace the machine guns on U.S. Air Force jet fighters. The Air Force has given Buffalo Arms, Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y. the first contract ($4,000,000) for a new fast-firing, 30-mm. aircraft cannon whose projectile is nearly three times bigger than that now used in the .50-cal. machine guns...
There were occupational hazards, though. Every once in a while when he was bent over absorbed in research, sleepy undergraduates staggering up Linden Street for a ten o'clock class would knock him into the gutter. The undergraduates always apologized, and said they were terribly sorry, but there were only a few inches of sidewalk left that weren't taken up by the garbage cans, and they couldn't be expected to walk in the streets, could they? Smushwick always shrugged. Once he had a really narrow escape. The Cambridge Board of Health said that, henceforth, all the cans were...