Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...records. In the battle against organized crime and subversion, he has contended that the Justice Department should have far greater control than it now has to conduct wiretaps and plant electronic bugs (see THE LAW). To combat the narcotics traffic, he urged adoption last week of a national "no-knock" law that would empower federal agents to break into a suspect's house, unannounced and unidentified, so that the occupants would not have time to destroy evidence...
...pizza prices from $1.50 to $2 in the last 18 months but cannot keep up with the climbing costs of such simple items as tomato paste. He confesses that his income may be falling because he is too discouraged to work as hard as he used to. "When you knock yourself out and discover that you're making less-well, you figure it's a losing battle," he says...
...lunar debris have been falling on the earth's surface for billions of years. Thus, they reason, even if there are lunar organisms, terrestrial life has long been exposed to them without any catastrophic results. According to their theory, meteors often strike the moon with enough momentum to knock lunar fragments loose at escape velocities. Most such fragments captured by the earth's gravitational pull would be incinerated as they plunge through the atmosphere. But those in a certain size range, the scientists say, would drift down and arrive on earth relatively unscathed, safely delivering any organisms they...
...Guide to praise his friends and publicize his prejudices. He has been sued 39 times for libel, but has lost only once, when he had to pay $3,800 to taxi operators he called "the biggest crooks and racketeers in Europe." Even friendship is no insurance against a Fielding knock if an establishment goes sour. But he knocks in the pained tones of an evangelist trying to persuade a fallen woman to return to the flock...
...with a .985 fielding average. He admits to being 38, but instead of slowing down, he just keeps suh-wooooshing along. When Cub Manager Leo Durocher took over the ball club three years ago, he started calling Banks "old grampa" and at one point asked the baseball writers to "knock off that Mr. Cub stuff." Said Durocher: "The guy's wearing out. He can't go on forever." Now Durocher seems convinced that Banks intends to do just that. "I retired him three years in a row," marvels Leo, "but I guess he just gets tired of seeing...