Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard goalie Tripp Tracy stopped the charge, but was felled by a storming Mike Bavis in the process. Junior Sean "Riddick Bowe" McCann gave "Michael Dokes" Bavis a lesson he wouldn't soon forget, reprimanding the Terriers' insolence with a quick jab to Bavis' jaw. Knockdown. No penalty for Harvard. Power play over...
...diplomatic tussle lives up to pre-bout rhetoric, either the U.S.-Israeli friendship or the Middle East peace process could suffer a knockdown. Last September the Bush Administration hinted strongly that the loan guarantees might be linked to limits on settlement construction. President Bush has not budged since. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir answered by pledging to keep building, declaring that "no power in the world can prevent us from carrying on." In response, the Palestinian delegation to the U.S.-sponsored peace talks threatened to boycott the negotiations if the guarantees were granted unconditionally...
KILLER JOE: SCENE OF THE CRIME (Hard Ticket). The knockdown, knockout party record of the season, if your idea of a blowout is straight-from-the-hear t rock with the rollicking flavor of the Jersey shore. Killer Joe Delia is a piano pounder with a raucous voice, and he's buttressed here by the eloquent drumming of his crony Max Weinberg, late of the E Street Band, and guest performers like Little Steven and Jon Bon Jovi. Glory days indeed...
...They [the Thomas hearings] reminded us of the difference between the academic world of policy formulation and the bruising knockdown world of real politics," Kunin said...
...count, so that his opponent could later complain, as Tyson did, "I knocked him out before he knocked me out." Rocky never had his championship belt stripped from him, as Douglas had, hours after the fight, when boxing authorities declared the title vacant pending a review of the Douglas knockdown...