Word: knock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rodeo's five events (others: steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle and bareback bronc riding), calf roping is the most delicate and difficult. The "calves" are mean, 300-lb. Branguses that can smash a man's ribs or knock out half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts...
...green emblem on the baby's diaper assays potassium chlorate . . . which implicates the gunpowder blender. Egad, the whole thing begins to jell. The Undershaft payroll goes out tomorrow . . . Then they'll knock the place over within 24 hours?" said Dr. Watson...
...three more with it wired shut, is so good on both offense and defense that the pros are puzzled about where to play him. "If he gets his hands on the ball, he'll run over the other team. If he doesn't, he'll knock the other team down...
...rest of the season, Pickett has learned, through long experience, not to let himself seem too hopeful. "Cornell still has the edge no matter how you look at it. But if we can just, by chance, knock them...
...minutes, the Thunderchiefs slammed away; there were no further missile shots. "They're going to be working on those vans for three, four years-if they even fiddle with 'em," said Air Force Captain Robert L. Harris, of Long View, Texas. "You can't knock 20-mm. holes in those things and expect 'em to work very well...