Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first the pop singers, then the clothing designers, now a precocious novelist who will be around for a long time. At 19, Caroline Glyn, a great-granddaughter of Elinor Glyn, is technically a teenager, but in skill and imagination she is a veteran. Her first novel, Don't Knock the Corners Off, was a winning, blithe schoolgirl adventure that knocked all four corners off an English education-and she was 15 when she wrote it. In her third novel, Oldtimer Glyn looks again into the recent past and examines the chimerical age of 13 in an upsetting setting...
Lynn, on the contrary, looks like a hockey star trying to look like a movie star. She seems to be bigger than Vanessa and to have more arms and legs?quite nice legs that somehow look sexy even though they are semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline...
...credit removed, a Commerce Department-SEC survey showed that business men had cut their spending plans for 1967 by $2.3 billion. And a similar survey released last week disclosed that the year's increase in capital spending would probably be 3.9% rather than 6% - or enough to knock half a billion dollars off the first-quarter G.N.P. John son was understandably worried. With such economic aides as CEA Chairman Gardner Ackley, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Budget Director Charles Schultze, he had been mulling over for some weeks a restoration of the 7% credit. In two days of meetings...
...other House finals were bloody affairs, both winning the approval of the large audience. Bob Raymond of Quincy scored with three solid right hooks to the jaw of Lowell's Tom Jones in the third round to knock out his rival, and cop the 165-lb. title...
Nobody seems to know exactly who thought up Section 20(e)-and nobody knows exactly why. "The whole idea in pole vaulting is to get over the bar and not knock it off," says Dan Ferris, former national secretary of the A.A.U. "If that's what the vaulter does, the jump should count." Seagren naturally agrees. At Los Angeles, he says, "right after I let go of the pole, I could see it was going to fall forward. As I came down I tried to kick it back. I actually touched it with my foot, but I couldn...