Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oliver lost his fight for Congressman from the industrial First District (Portland) to five-term Representative Robert Hale by only 28 votes, and may apply for a recount. Democrats won 63 seats in the 184-member state legislature- an increase of 23, six of them in Portland alone-to knock out the Republicans' two-thirds veto power in the house...
...village of Boscotrecase near Naples, people who had been used to the knock of Tax Collector Eugenic Francescone on their doors began about a year ago to grow accustomed to the knock of his son. Young Vittorio begged clothes to distribute among the village poor; he even persuaded the five beggars who had enjoyed Boscotrecase's old-clothes monopoly to give up part of their haul. Rumors spread about the goodness of young Vittorio-that at school he gave away his lunch to poorer boys, that he supported 13 families with his charity. He denied the rumors, but people...
Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon, Tipperary, Over There. Three majestic, mournful booms sound from the percussion section; at each one, the lights fade, and at last the palace is plunged once more into darkness...
...asked Madrid's influential royalist newspaper A.B.C., "that all over the world people get up early, work straight through the day. knock off work late in the afternoon and are in bed by midnight−except in Spain...
...carny world, says Sociologist Krassowski, is a tempting one: "You work like a wild donkey, you don't sleep and you lose weight. You knock the tents down and put them up and knock them down again. But I'm a carny now. In my stand, I watch the customers come in and I find myself thinking: "Poor people, poor people. They cannot do as they please...