Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Test Flight. In Detroit, Motorist Maurice J. Shields was sentenced to 20 days in jail after leading police a merry, 105-m.p.h. chase, explaining to the judge: "I heard a knock in the engine and I wanted to work...
...Barbara Finch. When Cody failed to act, the prosecution contended. Finch and Carole decided to do the job themselves. They assembled the "murder kit" in an attaché case: rope, carving knife, drugs, surgical gloves, .38-cal. shells, hypodermic syringes and needles. The plan, declared Prosecutor Whichello: ambush Barbara, knock her out with Seconal, inject a fatal air bubble into her bloodstream, and then put her behind the wheel of her car and push it off the cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near the Finch garage. She rushed out, saw Barbara lying...
...most insistent worry is that sometime in the early 1960s the U.S.S.R. might be tempted by its edge in missiles to try to knock out U.S. retaliatory power with a surprise attack on U.S. bomber and missile bases. The warning by SAC's commander, General Thomas S. Power, that with a mere 300 ballistic missiles the U.S.S.R. could "wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes," is much to the point. General Power's answer to the threat-an "airborne alert" that would keep...
...enough to boost its output thirteenfold by 1965. Though the Siberian deposits seem to be gem stones, and the Communists do not want their women to think that diamonds are a girl's best friend, De Beers feared that the Russians might move into the world market and knock prices down. Quality industrial diamonds is what the Soviets want. Hence the deal: gems for De Beers, which can market them at best prices in the luxury markets of the West, and an assured supply of industrial diamonds for the Soviet Union, which has sometimes had to make...
...lives, to be replaced by grimness and fear and a perpetual, mounting weariness of body and spirit." His U.S.-built MS light tanks-known to Crisp and his men as "Honeys"-mounted 37-mm. guns, whose shells bounced off the heavy German panzers like peas. To knock them out, Crisp and his fellow fighters had to race their tanks around the panzers, shoot them from behind or from the flanks while using one or more of themselves as decoys. For a month sleep averaged a couple of hours a night. A sip of tea became so important that Crisp...