Word: knock
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First, Radcliffe has to beat B.U., and second, the Black-and-White has to knock off Princeton. The Eastern Sprints, held on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn., represent the culmination of the regular season, and a last chance for Radcliffe to prove its prowess on the East Coast...
...simplified lie detector (called an "E-meter") that was designed to measure electrical changes in the skin while subjects discussed intimate details of their past. Hubbard argued that unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations (or "engrams") caused by early traumas. Counseling sessions with the E-meter, he claimed, could knock out the engrams, cure blindness and even improve a person's intelligence and appearance...
...stories they recount in the refugee camps in the Iraqi town of Safwan are appalling. "Iraqi troops sent a tank to knock down the door of the holy shrine of Najaf," recalls Hajj Hattin. "Then they began looting all the deserted homes. They shot people at random in front of the crowds." Hajj Mohammed remembers a helicopter gunship shooting at civilians in the streets of Najaf. Iraqi soldiers "went into schools to threaten small children into giving the names of relatives they could accuse of being rebels," he says. "If the child did not answer, they shot...
...everyone is. Mark Spitz, 41, now a businessman in Beverly Hills, is the marvelous sprint swimmer who at the '72 Olympics in Munich won seven gold medals in world-record time. Spitz had a world-class mustache and was smashingly handsome. The only knock against him was that he projected the personality of a 22-year-old who had spent a lot of time in swimming pools...
...York City, they favor classic cuisine. In Los Angeles, it's strictly salad and pasta. They still knock 'em back in Manhattan, but a little wine will do just fine on the West Coast. Perhaps some dessert tonight? New Yorkers are roughly 35% more likely than Angelenos to go for goo. They are also more likely to arrive at a restaurant straight from the office, eat, then run to a show or to the suburbs -- or back to the office. Such behavior is considered uncivilized in Show-Biz Land, where tight schedules are spurned...