Word: knock
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...happy because he thought he was pleasing his parents, particularly his father. Diana was happy because she had just received a buck-up note from Charles. He wrote of his pride in her and went on to give her some advice: "Just look 'em in the eye and knock 'em dead...
Buchanan was looking forward to tomorrow's string of primaries, mostly in New England, that he said would knock Lamar Alexander from the race...
...vengeful mother-in-law, whose scowl could knock down a tree, Muhammad gives the most memorable performance. She is engaging and her movements across the stage purposeful and powerful. One could only wish to have a mother so fiercely loyal that she would be so bad in an effort to defend one's post-mortem honor. Cheek and Legagneur transmit their characters' annoying qualities of boundless naivete and excessive idealism very well, though in general both were lacking in subtlty of emotion (not a serious liability in a melodrama of this magnitude). Legagneur's Gratuitous Shirtless Scene provided a clue...
Elsewhere in the league, Yale (12-12, 7-5) fell into a tie for third with Cornell after splitting a pair of lopsided games. The Elis managed to knock off struggling Columbia (61-48), but lost the more important contest to Cornell...
...electoral process is supposed to knock off the pretenders and leave a leader to pick up the banner of the party. But that's just not the case these days. While the Republican field has essentially been narrowed to four, half of the primary voters complained yesterday to a New York Times/CBS News poll that they are unsatisfied with the candidates who are left...