Word: knock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tripp Tracy, on to replace Israel at the 9:42 mark of the second, robbed Sean O'Brien of what appeared to be a sure tip-in goal. O'Brien's deflection trickled towards the goal line, but Tracy reached back with the butt-end of his stick to knock the puck away O'Brien raised his hands in the air, but referee John Melanson instantly signaled no-goal...
...losers, including Manet, Whistler and Pisarro, are somewhat more familiar names today than such winners as Gleyre and Couture. Then there was, of course, the good luck of Germany and Japan to lose their war against the U.S., which enabled both to enjoy a half-century run of knock-'em-dead economic robustness under American military protection. (Foolishly, Vietnam won its war against the U.S., and two decades later is still suffering for that victory...
These two teams on the US-Canada border in upstate New York world like nothing better than to knock off the ECAC front-runners, but Harvard should be ready to rumble...
...bitter fantasies of art. We see a frightening jumble of hungry, half-naked street kids, voracious rats, a huge cat-faced moon. Two white urchins discover a brown boy barely old enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny Opera teeters on murder: "Come says Jack let's knock him on the head, No says Guy let's buy him some bread." The happy ending is cold comfort: a ruck of bony children trying to sleep in a shantytown. This is brilliant and powerful stuff, but it is hard to imagine reading it to a child. Some adults...
...Allen Sinai, chief economist at the investment firm of Lehman Brothers. In everyday language, the recovery is getting to the point where people can feel it in their wallets. And this time it might not fizzle out the way an end-of-1992 surge did. It might -- cross fingers, knock on wood -- continue at a steady pace through next year or beyond...