Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power with great responsibility. If we had not acted, you would have had either a protracted civil war with thousands killed and starvation and epidemic everywhere, or a Communist result. Then you can think how popular we'd be in Latin America, where nobody really fears the American knock on their doors at night, but they do fear Castro...
...Foyt, Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones crashed in practice, and if the three top Indy veterans couldn't control their cars, what could be expected from the eleven green rookies in the race? There was the Great Tire War between Firestone and Goodyear (TIME, May 28), and the knock-down Battle of the Enginemakers between Ford, which entered its first Memorial Day 500 just two years ago, and Offenhauser, which had ruled the Brickyard for 18 straight years...
...Preti, known as "Luigi XIV" because the department has had 13 previous heads in 17 years. Preti admits he has not had much luck. "Whoever tries to reform finds himself up against a rubber wall," he sighs. "If it were a steel wall, you could take a cannon and knock it down. But the rubber wall-you hit it with your fist, then turn away, and the wall has returned to where...
...REVITALIZING A COMPANY: "Picasso says that creativity is a series of destructions. You really don't create anything until you knock something else out of the way. You have to tear down homes before you put in a freeway. But in professional management, and in the investment process, you recognize that you should tear down only so much before it is time to build anew, for excessive tearing down takes the destructive process beyond the realm of creativity. Something destructive goes in before the constructive comes out. The question is, how much destruction can be tolerated...
Martin Luther King could knock off two categories at once--three, if his Christian names are any indication of his ancestry. Others up for grabs are Edward Brooke, Attorney General of the Commonwealth; Thurgood Marshall. United States Judge for the Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; Marian Anderson; Constance Baker Motley, president of the borough of Manhattan; Sonny Liston, recently retired; and Warren G. Harding...