Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour, Bud was confident: "We're going to be a top recording group. There's no question in my mind, never has been." Still, considering the treacherous tides of the pop music business, the family had better heed the advice of one of the songs they sing: Knock on Wood...
...knock, when it comes, transforms the room into a kind of torture chamber, in which the welts are raised by laughs. The put-on is a game in which the victim does not know either the rules or the stakes. The victim appears more helpless and the game more sinister in that two or three men usually tease, bully and mystify him. The Caretaker, for example, is an extended put-on: the old tramp Davies is led to believe by the two brothers, Mick...
...took away his 160-lb. title last April. For starters, he was going to reshape Nino's roamin' nose. "I'm going to hit it and hit it and hit it," vowed Griffith. "I'm going to bend it. Then I'm going to knock him out." Bene, sighed Benvenuti, quaffing his Chianti-let him try. If it was a Pier Sixer that Emile wanted, Nino would oblige. "The first fight was rough," he said. "This will be rougher...
...game against California had taken place in 1965, and Boston was already assured of ninth place, what would Mike Andrews have done? He would have tried to knock the ball over the fence, heeding the maxim that home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Chevrolets...
Foremost, naturally, was Vic Gatto. Everyone agreed he was great and that was that. "Gary Strandemo's going to do something for us," the coach remarked. "He's different from Choquette (Tom, his predecessor at fullback); he doesn't knock'em down, but he runs to daylight well and has good hands...