Word: knock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French were not the only salesmen on the road. Two Algerian rebel leaders showed up in neutral Stockholm. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, in Montevideo, announced: "We have decided to knock at all Western doors, even of the United States. But if our appeals are not crowned with success, we will go to Moscow to embrace the serpent itself, ready for anything that will obtain liberty, just like Morocco and Tunisia...
...Croatian peasant who treasured freedom and hated authority, he had no use for Tito's postwar Communist dictatorship. On the inevitable night in 1949 when Tito's secret police came after him, Carmelo and his younger brother Emil fled to Trieste, only a thump ahead of the knock at the door. From their haven just across the border, Carmelo and Emil set up an overland express, guiding Yugoslavs to freedom. Before the year was out, Tito's agents had jailed Carmelo's mother and sister back home, and shot Emil dead in Italian territory. Three times...
...standard border-running price is $160), Carmelo laughed and said softly, "You'll need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around Capodistria, Carmelo and his refugees were sweating out the arrival of nightfall in a cottage when there came a knock at the door. Carmelo ordered the refugees out the back window, calmly opened the door, tossed out a grenade, slammed the door and escaped through the back window himself. To a father who had to leave a ten-year-old boy behind, Carmelo pledged, "You'll get your...
...economic power than the combined A.F.L.-C.I.O. They are so concentrated. An economic squeeze and pressure can be exerted that puts any employer in a very tough spot-and furthermore, puts the U.S. Government on a tough spot. If the A.F.L.-C.I.O. meets us head on, we'd knock the stuffings out of them...
...might fight again. A ham-and-egger for a good purse. But I'm not going to fight any more good boys. I'm not a fighter any more. That kid tonight, I don't know. But I don't think he was trying to knock me out. And I'm glad. It'd be an awful thing for a fighter to end up with someone standing over him counting...