Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas Republicans cannot knock out Democratic Governor George Docking next month, this traditionally Republican prairie bastion may be in for a long Democratic siege. In Parsons Publisher Clyde Martin Reed Jr., 44, the G.O.P. has its best chance to do it. Reed bears an illustrious Republican name: his father was Kansas Governor (1929-31) and longtime (1939-49) U.S. Senator. Well-known and liked, Clyde Reed Jr. has already restored party morale by the rude primary pasting he handed ex-Governor Fred Hall last spring, the same Fred Hall who went down-rejected by major party leaders-in the primary...
...necessary for Paar to live at the top of his emotions, because to such a large extent in his work, feeling takes the place of a specific talent. He is no actor, singer or dancer. He is a gifted comedian, but not in the Lindy stand-up-and-knock-'em-dead sense. His comedy is low pressure and has to be, if it is to be tolerated on a nightly 1¾-hr. show. "Nine hours a week," says one awed performer of Paar's stint. "My God, that isn't overexposure, it's practically nudism...
Grant never quite gets around to it, but his creator and prototype, Novelist Willard Motley, regrettably has. In his first, bestselling novel, Knock On Any Door (1947), Motley set out to demonstrate that the path from tenement to electric chair is paved with society's inattentions. The logic was sometimes shaky, but Motley's hoarse bellow of rage was convincing enough to make the indictment stick. In the current novel, his third, Motley stacks his evidence even higher, but he protests too much, and the bellow of rage has cracked to a querulous whimper...
...story chiefly concerns the bastard son of Nick Romano, the young Chicago gangster who walked to the chair in Knock On Any Door. Like his father, young Nick grows up on North Clark Street, home of the hustler, the "hard-eyed, the con-man, the pimp." Escape comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself...
...person at the East German Party Congress, Khrushchev demonstrated his support for East Germany's Stalinist chief, goateed Walter Ulbricht. "The wind isn't blowing into your face but Adenauer's." he told party activists. "Don't worry, they'll come yet and knock on your door and say, we're from Bonn and would like to negotiate." He drove into the countryside and hopped out to tell sugar-beet growers how to plant their crops ("in clusters of four"). The crowds in the market squares gave him a desultory welcome. But among some...