Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shut themselves in their small house. That night the Montis' lights did not go on, and the house was silent except for the call of a pet blackbird which Monti had taught to whistle Red Flag. After two such nights, the neighbors called the carabinieri, who had to knock down the door to get into the house...
Dete De Rhamsey, also a native of India, is another nominee for action at bowler. Cricket bowlers throw the five-ounce ball a distance of 66 feet from the batsman. The bowler's main object is to knock four-inch strips of wood off stumps, called wickets. The batsman tries to keep the bowler from hitting the strips...
...foreign aid was not charity but self-protection; the difficulty was that Europe, being in no one's constituency, had to be debated on its own merits alone. Missouri's James Kem wanted to slash off $1 billion. Ohio's Taft offered an amendment to knock off $500 million, about 16½% of the total. He would favor cutting "every reducible appropriation," foreign & domestic, Taft declared, by just about that percent.*"If we hope to save $3 billion this year towards balancing the budget," he argued, "no smaller amount will suffice...
Changing Concept. That same night, the Army also gave the nation a glimpse of some new weapons. Speaking in guarded phrases during a radio interview, Army Chief of Staff Joe Collins let it be known that his antiaircraft artillerymen had already developed a new AA rocket which could knock down bombers flying at 60,000 feet-well above the present bomber ceiling-and were working on another guided missile which promised to be even more accurate at even higher altitudes. General Collins also thought that he would soon have a new weapon of "radical design" which might "change the whole...
...Last Amendment." Patiently, as the day wore on, Douglas tried to knock out $200 million for flood control on the lower Mississippi River, $100 million of projects in the Ohio River Basin, $89 million for the Arkansas River Basin. Except for Delaware's John Williams and Virginia's inveterate economizer, Harry Byrd, he had almost no support. Most of his colleagues sat, exasperated...