Word: knock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't an appropriate time to discuss it, and we should just get to business and divide up the rooms in the Science Center. If that's not the time, when is? What am I supposed to do, leave the projectionist's booth in Sci Center C one weekend, knock on the door at B and say to whoever's there, 'Gee, aren't these rules awful...
Like in W.W. II guys used the Ml, a. Browning automatic rifle, grenades, some machine guns and a bazooka to knock out tanks, if they were close enough. Like 20 ft., our drill instructor said. That's sort of a joke. Well, the M-16 is a lot easier to handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there...
...HAVING ENOUGH TO DO. Arthur Schlesinger [the historian] wrote me a letter congratulating me on the election, but he also said, "I send you my prayers. It is the most incurably frustrating office ever conceived by man." I wrote him and thanked him but-knock on wood-at this point it has been entirely different from the traditional experience...
...Marxism will continue to knock on our door, but that is of no consequence. It is the terrorists who, supported by Marxism, come into Rhodesia and go out into the trust lands [black areas] to gain the support of the local tribesmen on the ground. Without that support, terrorists can't operate. You would not eliminate pressures from outside, but every country in the world copes with these. It's the terrorism within our country that we have got to cure...
...picture is a boring botch in every way, unconsciously exemplifying the film's title. When the first domino in a row is somebody like Stanley Kramer, you can count on him to fall down clumsily and knock down all the rest...