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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knock the rhythm of the kids today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: She Who Is Ella | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...mile tunnel that slices through the rolling countryside behind Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., was built for one purpose only: to house a linear accelerator with a beam of 20-billion-volt electrons that might knock stubborn secrets out of atomic nuclei. The accelerator is not yet complete, but its construction has already led to a striking discovery in the unexpected field of paleontology. A bulldozer digging a trench at the end of the tunnel veered a few feet from its guideline and uncovered a ponderous and peculiar skeleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: The Monster in the Accelerator | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...loss as bad as last Saturday's catastrophe against Dartmouth could knock any team out psychologically. Harvard doesn't have long to recover from the defeat; next week's game is with undefeated Princeton. Then come tough ones with Brown and unbeaten (though once-tied) Yale...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Crimson Has Chance to Snap Back Today | 10/31/1964 | See Source »

Such chilling scenes have built up a widespread misunderstanding of Patton that not even eight earlier and more friendly biographies could knock down. As this ninth attempt makes clear, the impression that he was a callous killer is no less deluded than Patton's own self-image. He absolutely believed that he was the "reincarnation" of an archetypal fighting man wHo had once "battled for fresh mammoth," had fought in a phalanx against Cyrus the Persian, on Crécy's field in the Hundred Years' War, in all the great campaigns since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War Lover | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...must make it out of the only material available to him, the friends and neighbors he has among the Poles, thus perpetuating the system that made his nomination possible. The only threat Buzcko faces is that someone representing a better organized group, most likely the Irish, will try to knock him off in the next primary...

Author: By Stepren J. Field, | Title: Ethnic Alliances, Bitter Feuds Mark Bay State Democrats | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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