Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Nguyen Khanh is like a kid's bell-bottom punch toy. No sooner is he knocked flat than he's up and grinning, ready for another foul blow. Last week the swat of a rebellious fist seemed to knock Khanh cockeyed, but within moments he was back on his feet-ready to be knocked down again...
...Williams, 50, whose four-year tour of duty rates as one of the more successful U.S. diplomatic efforts in Latin America in terms of general economic and political progress under the Alliance. Inheriting a sound relationship, perhaps the new man can even make his name work to advantage. To knock the U.S. now, leftist Salvadorans will also have to knock Castro...
Irritating Inconsistencies. Perhaps the most irritating and confusing aspect of the excise taxes-to seller and buyer alike-is the grand inconsistencies that pepper them. Radio tubes are taxed but not transistors, furs but not knock-'em-dead $3,000 evening dresses, aviation gasoline but not jet fuel. Many items that were initially taxed as luxuries have become the necessities of a newer generation-refrigerators, luggage and telephones, for example...
...been so quiet that I'm afraid to say anything," commented a Chicago school-board member, foreseeing that schools would open without racial clashes. Knock-on-wood optimism was the prevailing mood among local officials last week, as the first of 41.2 million American public-school children bustled into classrooms for the 1964-65 term. Having obstreperously demanded more integration and better schools in boycotts and demonstrations over the past year, responsible Negroes are now mostly satisfied with quiet but significant improvements all over the country-and they do not want to stir up more white resentment before...
...Well, I won't knock down any farms to build my house...