Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many states are in fact busily modernizing archaic codes of criminal procedure, and devising new legal weapons to meet contemporary conditions. Under New York's new "no knock" law, for instance, policemen no longer need identify themselves when executing search warrants in certain kinds of cases, such as those involving narcotics, thus reducing the risk that suspects will destroy the evidence. Local authorities have also sought to reform the out-of-date bail system, under which bondsmen grow fat while poor defendants stay in jail, where they cannot build their cases. As a result, 59% of such defendants...
...only do we put freeze in our anti-cars [June 25], but we put knock in our anti-gas so we can drive to Och in anti-Turkey and Etam in anti-Maryland...
...also had a clutch of new songs that seemed fresher and more sophisticated than '50s-vintage Lehrer. In the Dominican Republic, he cracked, Johnson landed the marines "faster than you can knock down Sonny Liston." Lehrer also pinked the plunking protestniks whose St. Joan is Baez. "We are the folk song army," he chirps. "Every one of us care ... It sounds more ethnic if it ain't in good English...
...first regularly scheduled news commentator. Scorning a script, he spoke only from sketchy notes-and sometimes from none at all. Scarcely glancing at the clock, totally unflappable, he rattled off the news without muffing a line. In his early days of broadcasting, a pianist stood ready to knock out a tune if Kaltenborn should run out of words, but the pianist never had to strike a note...
...doctors were delighted. "It was far, far better than anything we could have expected," said Berry, who flew from Houston to the Wasp. "If I were any happier today, I think I'd be flying around the room." Berry said the flight promised "to knock down an awful lot of straw men. We had been told that we would have an unconscious astronaut after four days of weightlessness. Well, they're not. We were told that the astronaut would experience vertigo, disorientation when he stepped out of that spaceship. We hit that one over the head...