Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel faint and dizzy, and they often have to sit down. Sopranos are probably not as affected because their voices are smaller." An internist finds the theory scientifically feasible: "Ultrasound shatters molecules, and that's what we are made of. High frequencies in his singing voice could well knock a tenor silly every time he belts out a high...
...thing, after all, might be to let the Cubans [meaning the exiles] go where they yearned to go-to Cuba." He also was not unmindful of what benefits a successful invasion could bring, and in early April all the hot inside talk in Washington was that "the Kennedys would knock off Castro soon...
Apart from the unsuccessful effort to knock off Castro's little air force before the battle began, it was well recognized that the invasion force would require its own air cover. For that, Kennedy at first stipulated that those same, Cuban-piloted B-26s do the job. On D-day plus one, it became clear that the invasion force was desperately pinned down on the beach by unexpectedly stiff fire and Castro air attacks. Then, in a post-midnight meeting, Kennedy, as Sorensen says, "agreed finally that unmarked Navy jets could protect the B-26s when they provided...
...freedom here in Louisiana, I'm gonna move in and run agin you." Later, at a mass meeting, Lomax said that CORE would bring in "some of the biggest religious names in the world, the same people who went to Selma." He added: "Let them knock some priests and nuns down for a change, let them shoot up on some Jewish rabbis. We're gonna walk through Bogalusa like John walked through Jerusalem...
...London Daily Mail that took the hint. Its editors simply tracked down a Londoner with a subscription to the South African paper and lifted the story, then splashed it across the front page. Editorialized the London paper: "Now Gandar awaits the knock on the door in the darkness at noon which is moving across South Africa. For this is the testing time for those journalists and editors in that country who have risked jail and intimidation to keep their press free...