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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cardinals' favorite fortuneteller, did predict that St. Louis would win the National League pennant - on the last day of the 1964 season. Of course, she also predicted that the Cards would need only five games to demolish the New York Yankees. But no baseball player is going to knock a .500 batting average - let alone .750. And last week Fifi made it three-for-four, as the gritty Cardinals humbled the heavily favored Yankees in the World Series, four games to three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Sweet Taste of Revenge | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...people would accept an actor running for office. And the word was that I had a pretty fair chance. After all, people remember me from all those old movies, and I never played a bad guy. I was always a good guy. It sounds corny, but don't knock it. I found that my biggest support would come from the ladies, the ones over 35. They are real workers. I mean if they are for you, they go all over the neighborhood like a pack of muskrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Who Is the Good Guy? | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...Killer on Target. Developed for the Air Force by Hughes Aircraft, the 12½ ft. AIM can knock down either aircraft or missiles, and goes about its work at a top speed of 2,000 m.p.h. The AIM drops clear of its parent aircraft, then ignites and zooms off toward its target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: A Swift Black Bird | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...assassination, but also what did not. Appendix XII goes on for 32 pages, first citing phony rumors and bad speculations, then citing the Commission's findings that knock down the rumors and speculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...trained scriptwriter knows, there are four correct replies: 1) Allied commandos and/or Yugoslav partisans; 2) Sophia Loren disguised as a sack of Sicilian melons; 3) The Thing; 4) a gruesome crew of master criminals who have all been promised pardon if they will undertake a fantastically dangerous mission to knock the hit out of Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gorilla Warfare | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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