Word: knock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly vulnerable to attack. Last April a pair of publicity- hungry lawyers deluged more than 5,000 Usenet newsgroups with an unsolicited promotional mailing, triggering a flood of angry E-mail massive enough to knock them off the Net. A few years earlier a single "worm" program, designed by a Cornell student to explore the network, multiplied out of control and brought hundreds of computer systems to a halt...
Wildcat Nick Poole centered the puck from behind the Harvard goal, but it stayed untouched until Flinton could corral it. Flinton again was covered by a Harvard defenseman, but the Crimson player couldn't knock him off the puck, and Flinton back-handed a shot from the slot through Tracy's five-hole to even the game...
...Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether search warrants give police authority to enter homes without announcing their intentions. At issue is whether the Fourth Amendment prevents such searches -- even though some lower courts have ruled that failure to "knock and announce" can turn a lawful search into an illegal one. Today, the Supreme Court agreed to rule on the issue using an Arkansas case in which a woman -- convicted of drug-related charges and sentenced to 31 years in prison -- claims that evidence seized from her home should not have been used at her trial because police walked...
Still unthinking, for those things which do not give us an instant buzz, our patronage turns to treachery. In these cases, if one child displeases us, we suggest massacring the entire family. If the present tenants of a house are distasteful, we knock the house down...
...peace treaty, is actually one of the less impressive recent U.S. successes. It is a welcome but hardly transforming step on the road toward peace in the Middle East, and the American role in bringing it about was only important, not decisive. But the occupation of Haiti -- cross fingers, knock on wood -- so far has been a nearly bloodless triumph. The swift deployment of U.S. troops and planes that scared Saddam Hussein into withdrawing the Iraqi forces he had massed along the border with Kuwait seems a "no-brainer" to many foreign- policy experts. Clinton had only to order execution...