Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After last Saturday's fiasco on Memorial filed one wonders what has become of the vaunted Dartmouth "spirit." There is no reason for a team to knock itself out on the field when the stands sit shivering tearing up programs or rubbing their cold hands together...
...handle an ordinary disaster like the Coconut Grove fire, which killed 500 people, by command coring every telephone in the block, but today when a single bomb will knock out the communication facilities of an entire city, I need plenty of workers to clear the debris, for rescue work, and to run messages. Here, Harvard students should contribute most...
...knock it out?" "No sir. General, that...
...Knocking the Other Half. Opening the full-dress debate on his motion last week, Churchill maintained that the government had no mandate to nationalize steel. Although the bill had been passed by the House of Commons a year ago, it had become a chief issue in the February election. The Labor Party had won a majority of only seven seats, but it had failed by more than a million votes to obtain a popular majority. Said Churchill: "Half of the nation ought not ... to claim the right on so slender a margin to knock the other half about and ride...
...Early next morning I heard a knock at my door. I opened, and there was the chief with his elders and a number of warriors. We exchanged greetings and I invited them to sit down. The weather conditions, the health of the cattle, the condition of the pastures were talked over. The chief was visibly uneasy. The others were also. Quite suddenly, almost abruptly, the following conversation took place...