Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week. "People take it for granted and are unaware of it-until they are deprived of it. The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened where there is no rule of law1. The dread knock on the door in the middle of the night...
...U.S.S.R., in the land of that knock, was to be another sort of day. From the marble tomb of Lenin and Stalin, in the shadow of the Kremlin walls, traditionally comes a dictator's propaganda of arms and marching men-with a rattle of rockets in the background...
...pilots' main argument is that the new jets must have three pilots for safety's sake. If the fuselage were damaged at high altitudes and pressurization failed, explosive decompression could knock out both pilot and copilot; to "fail safe," say the pilots, the system should have an engineer on the job who can also perform pilot's duties. The hole in this argument, say the airlines, is that any explosive decompression in the cockpit would knock out the entire crew-including a third pilot-engineer...
Jones: Well, it could. But consider that, by creating a surplus of cars, the auto industry probably reduced the actual price to the buyer-by big knock-offs on the list price. That leads me back to your talk about consumer disenchantment. How did it start-what with these price knockoffs and discount houses, and such...
...they happened to see the situation as he see it. They do not, however, perceive any significant movement toward restricting the courage to think or the expression of one's thoughts. To many it must appear that Mr. Bartley has set up a straw man which he can easily knock down with the full approbation of the Harvard community, but that his ecclesiastical, pietistic ogre is really nothing more than a scare-crow. Robert W. Haney...