Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quiet Holiday. On the last day of the old year, Ike gave the staff permission to knock off at noon. Newsmen pressed him for a New Year's message to the nation, but he declined, on the ground that a formal statement was the traditional function of the President and not the President-elect. But the news microphones were there as Ike emerged. Cheerily waving his brown felt hat, he wished a "Happy New Year to everybody everywhere." Then he was off to a holiday with his family, a champagne toast to see the New Year...
...elect Eisenhower's inauguration. Unlike the coronation of a British monarch, or the installation of a Chibcha chief, the inauguration of an American President has never quite lost a certain air of improvisation: democracy, on this occasion, wants to wear a silk hat, but it also wants to knock silk hats into the Potomac...
...stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel over to the left, hoping that the 45° lurch would knock Ang off his feet. Instead, Ang kept his balance, fired two bullets into Captain Perlas. It was just a moment later that Purser Diago began hammering on the door. Swinging round, Ang fired through the door, and it was then that the passengers first knew something was up. Captain Perlas...
...varsity picture looks like the Crimson's depth will tell the story. Like other opponents, B.C. has some outstanding performers but none of the Crimson's overall strength. The only question, according to McCurdy is whether the Crimson's two week vacation coupled with several minor injuries will knock performances down enough to make the meet close...
...they are overlooking a principle of physics familiar to any high-school boy, i.e., "action equals reaction." . . . The same principle would be involved in a space ship leaving earth. Smalt as it would be in relation to the earth's mass, the rocket blasts would be sufficient to knock the earth slightly out of kilter in the delicate balance between centrifugal force and gravitation which now keeps our planet from either whirling loose from the solar system or falling into...