Word: knock
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Last week's presidential and vice presidential debates introduced the nation to a new phenomenon in national politics. Instead of trying to score a knock-out punch with a witty insult or a derogatory swipe at a rival's character, the candidates are now attempting to appear as amicable as possible. They insist that they are actually good friends and that the differences between them are purely ideological, not personal...
...press him on the point, inquiring why, then, it makes the pipes at all. This sends him into a mumbling frenzy. Eventually he offers that "They make pretty nice flower pots." Besides, he argues, Graffix doesn't even make that many; most of the ones you see are knock-offs...
HARTFORD, Conn.--President Bill Clinton and his Republican challenger Robert J. Dole sparred over several hot-button issues here last night in the first presidential debate of 1996, but neither seemed to land a knock-out blow...
...Going to America not only defeats barriers like the current 25% duty on imported pickup trucks but also lowers manufacturing and distribution costs. Toyota's nonunion U.S. workers shave some 10% from its wage bill vis-a-vis Japan, and a like amount from shipping costs. The savings can knock about $2,000 off the sticker price of a Camry that would cost $20,000 if imported from Japan...
...confident that nobody would try to scare him out of his rights. We live in an era, after all, in which Fatty Arbuckle's departure in disgrace from the film industry would be accompanied by a fat book contract and an arrangement with Hard Copy. Anyone tempted to knock off this society's leading corrupters simply wouldn't know where to begin...