Word: plexus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner wound up a mild flirtation with a lunchroom girl than two men chivvy him into an alley and work him back & forth like a rockinghorse, one hammering at his solar plexus, the other at his kidneys. And he has hardly got his breath back when he has to watch a huge criminal (Fred Steele) force a small damp grey one (Elisha Cook Jr.) to drink a glass of poison. After that it is only a question of time before the big man has laid out Marlowe with a fistful of small auto parts...
...some 3,000,000 Americans thus search the heavens so avidly? One guess was that war and The Bomb had hit the nation right in its lunar plexus. But people were still asking the same old questions: "Will I succeed?" "Will I get married?" "Where is William?" Only Southern California seemed worried about the future. Out of 42 letters received in a month by one fashionable Hollywood horoscopist, 14 asked: "Where is a safe place for me to move...
...again if you were in power." Labor cheered wildly. "I have a clear card in my union; I want this Act off the statute books so that we have a clear card before the law." Then Ernie swung his knockout to the Tory solar plexus. "We Socialists are here. . . in power and we are going to stop here...
...Cover) If there ever was a time for simultaneous blows against Germany from east and west, this was it. But General Eisenhower's armies had not completely recovered from the plexus punch which Rundstedt had delivered in the Ardennes, despite the rosy statements of Army press-agents at SHAEF. Yet Eisenhower had brought about a larger measure of recuperation in a shorter time than most military observers had believed possible...
Then, savagely, the full force of the German blow was unleashed. Its suddenness, its underrated force, sent the Americans reeling like a boxer who has taken a terrific punch to the solar plexus. The Germans followed through, hoping to corner the Americans, to knock out the U.S. First Army...