Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What were some of those things? "The thing about Europe is, can you defend it? If Russia has the atomic bomb, can't they knock the devil out of Europe? I don't know. We have to help Europe-the question is how much? Is that our main purpose? Should we make plans for defeating Russia on the European continent, or should we depend on air power? I've been primarily an air man, but I don't think we should put all our eggs in one basket. I don't know. It ought...
...possible that the main Chinese objective was not in Korea at all, but on the political front at Lake Success. Instead of a bludgeon to knock the U.N. troops off the peninsula, the Chinese force in Korea might be a blackmail attempt to win U.N. recognition for Communist China...
Willie has no explanation for his success. But Will Molter, last season's leading West Coast trainer who uses Willie's services whenever they are available, explains it with exhaustive fervor: "Willie's great. He doesn't try to knock the spirit out of a horse; any horse he rides can be raced again in a couple of days-and that's unusual. Willie's a great judge of pace. He doesn't whip the horse right out of the stall like Longden, but gets the feel of the horse in the first...
Milwaukee-born Hans ("Dean of Radio Commentators") von Kaltenborn went into radio in the breathless, carbon-mike '20s. In the course of his news gathering, he had an opportunity to rub elbows and knock heads with some of contemporary history's greatest heroes and biggest heels. With no foolish pretense to modesty, Fifty Fabulous Years recalls some of his most colorful experiences...
...other ragtimers, Texas-born Scott Joplin served his time rocking a piano in that cradle of jazz, the sporting house. But unlike flamboyant, razor-handy Jelly Roll Morton, Joplin was, as one old friend recalls, the kind of man who "never hurt anybody. A kitten could knock him down. He wasn't much socially, but most everyone had a lot of respect for Scott because he never threw himself away...