Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cannon's power is immeasurable. One year, on a Saturday afternoon, he decided that defense requests were too big, jumped up from his desk, ordered his staff to knock out $6 billion by Monday morning. In the final congressional result $4.8 billion of that cut survived. Military men displease Clarence Cannon anyway. "They always want to fight the next war with old weapons," he says. "We had the deuce of a time getting them to give up the cavalry. They liked to ride those horses." By the simple expedient of packing his Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, he lopped the Navy...
...agreed, and two weeks later both men met in the bar of the Aletti Hotel in Algiers, where Dr. Lacour pointed out Paulo. Rayon uneasily saw that the boy was wearing battle dress. He told Lacour that ''Algiers did not seem to be the ideal place to knock off a combat lieutenant of the paratroops." Lacour replied that Rayon could kill Paulo after he got out of the army...
...first time since the days of Max Schmeling, the likeliest challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing title is a European. He is Sweden's Ingemar ("Ingo") Johansson, who last September took only one round to knock out the U.S.'s visiting Eddie Machen, up to then rated the No. 1 contender for Floyd Patterson's crown. In the past, Patterson's unpredictable manager Cus D'Amato has not matched his man with any fighter who could possibly be considered dangerous. But last week Johansson flew into Manhattan, held a summit meeting with...
...Iviglia's charges supported by court-appointed scientists and "style experts," the court found Dealer Werro guilty of "falsifying labels'' and "forgery in two cases," fined him 5,000 Swiss francs, sentenced him to a one-year conditional jail term. The decision, said Investigator Iviglia. would knock the bottom out of the old-violin market...
...years the U.S. has made and learned new rules all its own. The test-and the proof that the U.S. had learned its lessons well-was the recession. It not only highlighted the changes in the economy, but proved beyond doubt that the U.S. could take a hard knock and come bouncing quickly back. In the new economy...