Word: knock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restaurants and theaters and airplanes) from the cell people before we all go crazy. There must be a gadget in the Sharper Image catalog or somewhere that could negate this nuisance. A cell jammer, say, a pocket-size device that cell haters could carry around and deploy to knock a phone abuser offline. Even better if the device could also transmit into his ear a high-pitched shrieking sound, similar to the one the phone company used to use before informing you that the number you were calling was not in service...
...reach of the Chinese police, millions of his acolytes are running scared. Nobody dares go to the parks to exercise anymore. Many Falun Gong members have temporarily left home, and others are waiting for a knock on the door. "My mother was detained for 44 hours," says Sophie Xiao, a Beijing-born investment analyst now living in Hong Kong. "I was very worried. She is stubborn and wouldn't sign the letter of confession. She had to go to two police stations for questioning." Her mother is also a Communist Party member, which singled her out for special treatment...
...four times a week and by some accounts ate a full box of Metr-X bars for breakfast each morning, resulting in a perfectly sculpted body, with abs that would put any shirtless celebrating member of the U.S. women's soccer team to shame and with power that could knock the wind out of a production assistant during spirited office-time slam dancing, the latter thesis of which I had the displeasure of confirming. Needless to say, any fear I had of failing at my task multiplied considerably when I realized that this individual would be the ultimate judge...
Reflection on Sales: Millions more Whoppers sold, if Burger King has it its way. It's selling knock-offs of the glasses...
Having spent the better part of the current congressional session throwing knock-down punches at each other over impeachment, guns, Hollywood and the budget, House members on Tuesday turned to the subject of boxing. A House commerce subcommittee heard testimony from boxing promoter Tony Holden in support of legislation pinning down his peers to a set of national standards. The bill, which seeks to even the matchup between wheeling-and-dealing promoters and their often young and inexperienced charges would, among other things, require promoters to reveal more financial information (including their take from boxers? purses) and impose...