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Word: knock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race for the White House, Clinton became his party's media-anointed front runner. He may soon discover that the worst thing that can happen to a candidate is to be too far ahead too soon. The political press corps, which prides itself on how quickly it can knock the stuffing out of those who would run for President, has gone into a deep swoon over his candidacy, from which it will sooner or later recover. For the moment, reporters seem entranced by Clinton's persona: a good-government geek saved by a self-deprecating sense of humor. As chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Front Runner By Default | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...Drilling and Annuities) and had been struck by a remarkable letter from Darryl Zanuck to Marilyn Monroe. It was on 20th Century Fox letterhead, scolding Marilyn for her "completely impractical request" to have a special dialogue director work with her on the set of Don't Bother to Knock (a movie rated "don't bother to see"). "You have built up a Svengali," the letter read in part, "and if you are going to progress with your career and become as important talent-wise as you have publicity-wise then you must destroy this Svengali before it destroys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Marilyn, My Marilyn | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...conservative hands. President Bush shrugged off apologizing for the the atomic attacks, claiming that Americans and Japanese are "saying 'Hey, let's forget that, let's go forward now together.' And if you see some ugliness in our country about the Japanese, I'll be out front saying, 'Hey, knock that off.'" His message, which implies a forgetting of the most decisive event in 20th century history, seems to be catching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dismembering Pearl Harbor | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...offered to let me make Chanukah ornaments. I told him that it would be a fire hazard to hang ornaments on my menorah. We compromised and I made a nondenominational knock-hockey...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Chanukah in the 90's | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

...since antibiotic therapy was introduced in the 1940s, primarily as a result of failure to maintain proper treatment. Taming the bug usually requires up to six pills daily for six months. If a patient fails to complete this regimen or if his immune system is impaired, the drugs may knock off only the weakest germs, leaving their more tenacious, drug-resistant cousins to proliferate and possibly spread to other victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TB Takes a Deadly Turn | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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