Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike Canute. Wilson then outlined an ambitious ten-pronged Labor program for "Britain's industrial regeneration," adding, to his American business audience, "Given the response of which our people are capable, be under no illusions we shall be ready to knock hell...
...another occasion, the Viet Cong seized a group of villagers and tried to use them as a human shield. Rather than kill women and children, as they had done in a similar situation last year, South Vietnamese troops tried to knock out everybody with gas. They failed because of adverse winds, and had to retreat. The last use of gas was on Jan. 27, when Viet Nam government troops tried to flush a guerrilla force from a heavily fortified network of trenches, tunnels and caves, but again were foiled by tricky winds...
SNCC, on the other hand, has led demonstrations in Montgomery every day this week. In an anguished speech after Tuesday's beatings, Forman said, "If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the f-----legs off." The SNCC demonstrations are aimed at disrupting Montgomery enough to force President Johnson to intervene...
...united front and announce that she must choose between them, she thinks (if you can call it that) and smiles. "Very well," she decides. "I will choose the one who can do the best tricks." So, of course, both swains make idiots of themselves for five minutes. "If I knock my head against a wall would that prove that I love you?" pleads Belmondo in baffled desperation. "Perhaps," muses Anna. So he jumps up, zooms out of the cafe and across the street, head first into a brick building. She's unmoved...
Died. Willard Motley, 52, chronicler of Chicago's Skid Row, a Negro who refused to write about his own race (he once called James Baldwin "a professional Negro"), instead peopled his two best-known novels (Knock on Any Door, Let No Man Write My Epitaph) with a collection of whoring, murdering, dope-addicted slum whites as if to prove that Negroes have no monopoly on crime or misery; of gangrene of the intestines from a neglected infection; in Mexico City...