Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came at me." Police said Van Rie admitted, then denied, that "I beat her unmercifully. I beat her with my left. I beat her with my right. She fell to the floor. I picked her up and shook her. I threw her into the bunk. I heard a knock on the door and asked her to reply. She said she was too sick and wasn't going to dinner." Then, said Van Rie, he left her, still alive. At all times he denied that he had picked her up and thrown her into...
Riding the economic cycle is an old sport of the economists. But none can foresee the events of the future that can easily knock the best theories on the head. In the last recession the U.S. was helped because it stepped up defense spending after the Soviet Sputnik. In a 1961 recession, if the U.S. has a balanced budget-as now seems possible-the Government will be in a position to cut taxes to spur spending...
...Clinton boy dragged Bobby Young across the street to a flat, where Bobby fell dead. "Skinny" Krzesinski staggered and crawled to another nearby building, knocked on a door, reached up to the girl who answered the knock, gripped her wrist tightly, and died...
...last season Rocky did not get on with Manager Bobby Bragan, who stuck slavishly to the book and used his right-handed power only against left-handed pitching. Rocky sought out Bragan and blurted: "If you let me play regular, I'll hit 35 home runs and knock in 100 runs." Bragan promptly tipped off the sportswriters, stuck Rocky in the line-up to let him put up or shut up. "The minute I said it I knew I made a mistake," says Rocky. "But with God's help I hit 41 homers and I drove...
...Zionist and longtime student of the Nazi victim-he wrote a stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank that was never produced-Author Levin has evidently done thorough research on what happened after the Gestapo's fateful knock on hideaway doors. He has also covered civilian life as the enemy dourly lived it. In his attempt to follow up the actual Anne...