Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This modern descendant of the horse-drawn French 75 is a cross between a gun and a rocket launcher. It is handled in the field by a small crew, can knock out a tank if it hits the treads or the relatively thin side armor. One drawback: the blast which spurts from the openings in the rear of the recoilless rifle reveals the weapon's position...
Another outstanding National League rookie is Centerfielder Sam Jethroe of the Boston Braves (TIME, March 20), who steals bases with the ease of a practiced pickpocket. Ordinarily no slugger, switch-hitter Jethroe has several times managed to knock the ball out of the park when a home run was what the Braves needed most, and his early-season average as a .300 hitter brought him a salary raise. At midseason, the fleet 28-year-old Negro is the almost unchallenged base-stealer of the major leagues: 24 bases, 15 more than his nearest competitor...
Germany is the most toothsome mouse of all. On paper, there are enough Communists in Eastern Germany to start a Korea-style civil war. The West's experts believe, however, that the West Germans could knock the Marx out of the East Germans. And if Russia had to intervene -well, that would be another invitation for all-out atomic...
...does not knock his fellowmen...
...Communists were already putting their dreaded tanks across the river on rafts and pontoon bridges. Again the South Koreans, now short of weapons of any sort, wavered and broke, and the Communists pushed on. Meanwhile, U.S. jets and F82 Twin Mustangs were beginning to shoot down Yaks and knock out some of the enemy armor. The Yaks retaliated by destructive sneak attacks on Suwon's airstrip...