Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard hockey team has its first of at least three chances tonight to knock off #1, the Big Red of Cornell, in an Ivy League encounter at hockey-mad Ithaca tonight. The Crimson is a heavy underdog, but no more than it was last year when it lost 7-6 in the away game and won, 5-4, at Watson Rink...
...Party criticism. Brown has not been on the job long enough to produce any big successes, but he is steadily gaining influence in the Wilson Cabinet. Long the most enthusiastic Laborite supporter of Britain's joining Europe, Brown persuaded an initially reluctant Wilson that it was time to knock on the Common Market door again (TIME, Nov. 18). While Wilson is grappling with domestic problems, he has turned over to Brown the responsibility for making progress on a nonproliferation treaty, the restructuring of NATO, an East-West detente, and a way to hold a British line-however thin-east...
Because they are unaffected by temperature extremes, radiation, vibration or shock-conditions that often damage or knock out electronic circuits-fluidic controls show their greatest promise in aerospace and defense work. The Army has already successfully tested a fluidic roll-rate control on its TIM (test instrumentation) missile; it is evaluating a fluidic navigational device developed by Martin Marietta Corp. for use by foot soldiers. Honeywell Inc. has developed and flown a fluidic autopilot. In less esoteric applications, the new technology is being used on New York Central locomotives, General Electric turbines and the machinery that manufactures Speidel watchbands...
...still a genuine tough guy - with a record of 51 knockouts and 65 victories in 71 pro fights. "Williams has the essential of a real champion - a punch," said ex-Champion Joe Louis, and the Cat's manager, Oilman Hugh Benbow, predicted: "We're going to knock Clay's brains...
...extra-fast tonight," Clay said later. He was so fast that the Cat hardly laid a paw on him. "I used the Ali Shuffle before each knock-down, and it really confused him," the heavyweight champ said...