Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked hard, going through half a dozen speech drafts with his advisers before he was satisfied. He tried to get to bed by 10:30 or 11, but his aides were getting used to having him knock on their doors at 2 a.m. when he had just thought of something that he wanted to thrash out at once...
...worked for his country's participation in NATO and gave his name to the plan for a great six-nation coal and steel community. Yet these days Robert Schuman's place in history is more secure than his place in current French politics: if the opposition could knock off Schuman, they could probably topple Pinay, who needs the 98 votes of Schuman's party, the MRP, to stay in office...
...more & more strains of microbes learn to live with antibiotics and become resistant to their killing power, researchers keep hunting for new antibiotics to stay a jump ahead. Chas. Pfizer and Co.'s latest is magnamycin, now being tried in hospitals, which seems to knock out many germs which can defy penicillin and the rest...
...week, before the Chelf subcommittee in Washington, he made it plain that he felt himself more to be pitied than censured, that his was the dilemma of the small-town boy who falls in with flint-eyed, big-city strangers and finds himself the fall guy when the cops knock down the door...
...Described in the official Soviet encyclopedia as a bat-and-ball game played on a broad field with "cities" marked off at either end. "The players in turn . . . knock a ball up and ahead and, during its flight, run around to the 'city' of the opposing team and back. The opponents try to catch the ball and strike the runner with...