Word: knocking
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Cornell is back with the likes of Morris, South and Esdale who were good enough to knock off top-ten member Princeton once. And the Tiger has Chris Thomforde back--old Nassau will be tough. Columbia has the big Newmark after a year-off and gave New England power Holy Cross a tough time in a pre-season scrimmage...
...spent much time in those days planning how to escape through the roof of our home, if an unwelcome knock came on the door," Hoffmann recalls...
After he agreed to knock back a few vodkas with the London Daily Express' man in Moscow, British Traitor Harold Philby, 55, proved aggressively unrepentant. "I would do it again tomorrow," said the former chief of British counterintelligence, who went over the wall in 1963. His purpose, he said, "was the fight for Communism" and the eradication of the many evils of capitalism, prominent among them "the expense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, the English Channel and the rising cost of living." By contrast, Philby added, "I am having a love affair with Moscow," marred only...
...Suddenly people have elevated the fight of the Dow man to recruit to first amendment rights," he said. "Actually it's about akin to the right of peddlers to knock on your door. I oppose this cynicism, but I also oppose the high-faluting pomp of those who say Oxford and Cambridge wouldn't allow recruiting on campus, yet who don't want to model Harvard after those institutions in any other...
...Anthony Wiener, 36, is a member of Hudson's research staff. Their book, relentlessly technical and deliberately undramatic, is as far removed from Jules Vernean fantasy as sober analytical methodology can carry it. Kahn and Wiener cannot unlock the future's doors, but they know where to knock. 50 in the Club. The authors develop what they call "scenarios," or hypothetical future trends, which are projected in every conceivable direction from the known past and present. The result is a multiple hypothesis of the future that seeks to accommodate every plausible possibility-some more plausible than others...