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During the worst days of London's blitz a church hung out a sign: IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM...
...luckiest turfmen. A little over a year ago, Hertz was willing to sell the son of Reigh Count for $4,500. The colt's conformation was faulty: his weight and power had grown in front instead of behind, where experts insist it should be. His forelegs were slightly knock-kneed and he ran with his head held high like a show horse. He seemed destined to be no greater than his mother, a commonplace selling plater named Quickly. Since no one wanted the Count, he was put to work to earn his oats...
...These boys had been storming these hills for three weeks, trying to get over to the coast and get in Rommel's rear, but the Germans had refused to budge until this morning when they fled before Montgomery's powerful advance. 'We tried to knock 'em off Old Baldy,' said Sergeant Vernon Mugerditchian of Waukegan, Ill., jerking his head at a rounded bare steep cliff. 'We tried first with one battalion and then another, but we just couldn't. They were lookin' down our throats...
...25th anniversary. Britain's great Air Force, up from nothing since World War I (see p. 98), was strong enough in its maturity to repay Germany in kind for London and Coventry. How strong would it have to be-could any air force ever be strong enough-to knock Germany...
...Evoke, to Develop. "The biggest job in the Army is to knock the complacency out of young officers and men, to make them realize that only by dint of their greatest effort, their utmost unselfishness, their infinite pains, and their capacity for self-sacrifice . . . will victory be attained. We must arouse in them the spirit of the offensive...