Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next speaker was Crane. "Don't turn a 16-inch gun on a canoe and don't get in the gutter because you know what happens," he said. "Suffice it to say that I am not a back room boss...if anyone wants to knock me out of the Cambridge public life they can do it every two years...
...arrangements, many of which are almost as extraordinary as his voice. Often, his arrangement of another's song amounted to a re-writing. This is true of "Try a Little Tenderness," "You Send Me," and "Tell It Like It Is." His version of "Knock on Wood," though it retains almost nothing of the great Eddie Floyd original, is undoubtedly the definitive version of that song. His arrangements are infinitely varied. Before one understands the arrangement of "Tell It Like It Is," recorded on his joint album with Carla Thomas, it sounds as though it is being played at the wrong...
Last week, when the three rulers gath ered in the Ugandan capital of Kampa la to talk about the Community's future, nine other African leaders showed up to knock on the door...
...Horses. The ranch seems to be Jones's true love. "You start out as a farmer," he drawls, "and you learn year by year. My daughters try to sophisticate me, but they'll never knock the farmer...
...Hastily, they organized a fund-raising drive called "Project S O S" and dashed off thousands of letters to prospective donors. They manned telephones for 100 hours running, composed radio appeals, dispatched one member to Manhattan to seek foundation money, even sent another to Las Vegas to knock on Howard Hughes's gilded door. Neither traveler succeeded, but their enterprise made such an impression on K.S.C. Board Chairman L. LeRoy Highbaugh Jr., who made millions in real estate, that he donated $800,000 to the salvage effort...