Word: knocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...period in New Haven last week, folded in the second and third periods and let the Elis score twice in each. However, the team is at full strength for tonight's game, and if it can play as well as it did against Yale, it should be able to knock off the Tigers...
...courts have yet to start operation. Last week, after price riots in Belo Horizonte (TIME, Feb. 18), Price Boss Benjamin Scares Cabello announced the newest plan: a chain of 24 government-run stores in all state capitals to "sell everything 15 to 25% cheaper." Said Cabello: "We'll knock prices down all right! We'll modernize the trade system of Brazil!" When would the first store open? "Within three months," said Cabello...
...Real Dinger. Back in the main lobby, Truman said he had frightened the builders (John McShain Inc. of Philadelphia) into putting up a new chandelier. The old one looked like a livery-stable lantern, and he threatened to knock it down with a baseball bat if they put it up again. The state dining room is also getting a new chandelier, he said-a real dinger...
...week: "We've got a lot of little grass fires going all over the country, and there will be more of them by convention time. We aren't fighting anybody. We are just waiting." What they are waiting for: a situation in which Eisenhower and Taft supporters knock each other out in the Republican National Convention, leaving MacArthur in the center of the stage as the nation's best-known anti-Truman leader...
Today a candidate from the outer reaches of British society may make the grade, but not unless he graduates fairly well (a "second class") from a university. Competitive exams usually knock out half the several hundred applicants. The survivors move on to a large old house on London's Chesham Place, once the Czarist Russian embassy, for a harrowing two-day grilling. There, in groups of six, the candidates show their paces before a government official, a psychologist and perhaps a university don. Each is required to make a speech, write a memorandum, chairman a mock committee meeting...