Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competent and adequately equipped." Parsons' evaluated bid of $13 million was $6,300,000 below the nearest domestic bidder. TVA found "the import duty [12% to 17%] is adequate to protect U.S. manufacturers against differences in labor costs." What about national security? Replied TVA: Total war would probably knock out foreign and U.S. plants alike, thus "early repair or replacement would seem unlikely no matter where the unit was built...
...interval between blast-off and strike. Said SAC's Commanding General Tom Power in testimony last month before the Preparedness Subcommittee: SAC has no "airborne alert" in the sense of loaded bombers in midair at all times, and without adequate warning "it is conceivable that you could knock...
Hollyhocks & Daisies. The trio was an instant hit with the literary upper crust. There was in fact only one unbeliever in the crowd, one William Haskins, instructor in English at Northwestern University. Demanded Corso: "Man, why are you knocking the way I talk? I don't knock the way you talk. You don't know about the hollyhocks." Replied Haskins: "If you're going to be irrelevant, you might as well be irrelevant about hollyhocks." Countered Corso: "Man, this is a drag. You're nothing but a creep-a creep! But I don't care...
Then there was a knock at the door and we welcomed the telephone-repair...
...doesn't take all that "urgent and thought-compelling" twaddle so seriously that there isn't room for a little news about the lighter things in life. I sure liked that page-and-a-half spread you gave to that scandal in France about those rich people trying to knock one another off. Oh, those French, eh, Mr. Auer! And I can hardly wait to see how TIME covers that other scandal that broke last week in France about the government officials and the nude dancing girls. I guess the issue was a little too crowded to squeeze that...