Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size of the royal budget, even after all the explanations, shocked Britons. Two Socialists, characteristically pinch-penny with non-Socialist expenditures, proposed to slice the Queen's personal allowance almost in two, and to knock $84,000 off the Duke of Edinburgh's funds...
...fraternization with troops was a vogue; Clark went swimming and played baseball with soldiers. He takes care always to ask his jeep driver's name, and to shake his hand. Accessibility was another vogue; Clark had the inevitable sign on his door that read: "Enter, don't knock...
...infield error then scored the run which boat Webb. A quick recovery and fine throw by first baseman Russ Johnson out down another run at the plate, but then Wahlers--a more J.V. at the start of the year--touched Crimson reliever Bob ward for a line double to knock in the insurance tally. Coach Stuffy Melanins had in insert his fourth pit other of the day--pat Groper--before the inning could be ended...
...miniature cameras and candid photography grew, so did Leitz. By World War II, the company had 3,000 employees and was grossing $10 million a year. Then it concentrated on war work, and was so vital to the Nazi war industry that U.S. heavy bombers tried thrice to knock it out. Though its eight buildings were straddled with hundreds of bombs, hardly any were damaged. At war's end, Leitz began making Leicas for sale in Army PXs. To help defray the cost of occupation, resumption of Leica exports was authorized...
...Nazis' black book. The day of reckoning came in March 1933. By that time, the Socialists were meeting clandestinely.; those in danger of arrest were told to find sanctuary in Prague. Schumacher would not go. Four months later, in a hideaway in Berlin, he heard the expected knock on the door. The Gestapo took him to the Heuberg concentration camp near Stuttgart. Schumacher coolly calculated thaO he would be in jail eleven years (he reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost a war). His calculation was close. He spent ten years in concentration...