Word: knock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles compares his work to that of a bombing mission. "If your bombers are being shot down, you can either develop higher flying bombers or you can knock out the anti-aircraft guns and use the old bombers," says Knowles. By rendering the enzyme inoperable, Knowles effectively knocked out the "anti-aircraft guns...
...Harvard hopes to knock off Army, the Crimson must put the pressure on early, exploiting its newly recharged offense to gain an early lead...
...that doesn't seem to be good enough anymore. Now, if your neighbor does something annoying, you take out your shot gun and blow a whole through the front door. If somebody cuts you off on the L.A. Freeway, you knock out his or her tires with an unregistered semi-automatic weapon...
...supply more than 85% of the island's imports, including most of its oil, which Moscow swaps for Cuban sugar at such high valuations that it amounts to an effective annual subsidy worth millions. Putting this arrangement on a free-market basis, as Gorbachev promised to do, will knock out one of the few remaining pillars of the crumbling Cuban economy...
...pointless to knock Me. Critics have shot more arrows at Hepburn than you might find piercing the sides of St. Sebastian. Her voice was usually described in terms reserved for plumbing; her breasts were too small, her neck too scrawny; she wasn't sexy enough to play Scarlett O'Hara; she was labeled "box-office poison." And the toughest critic, Hepburn herself, says, "I was a terrible...