Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winless Puritan squad should not present much of a problem, but Quincy, on the strength of its upset win over Kirkland, must rate an even chance to knock off the Leverett eleven
...Aeronautics and Space Administration to put improved X-ray instruments on satellites. Other X-ray sources will probably be found, and Professor Rossi for one thinks that X-ray astronomy may eventually prove as important as radio astronomy. It may be that charged particles blown out of the sun knock soft X rays out of the moon, and if this were proved it would give vital information about the lunar surface, where astronauts may some day land. "There are things going on in space," says Dr. Rossi, "that are still unknown. That is what so excites us. We hope that...
...reaching for one perfect final portrait of man, and his avaricious eye is often bigger than his brush. "I am trying to communicate with myself, and I keep hoping that one day I'll knock myself backward with the impact of what I've done." Until then, the chances are good that Bacon will continue bowling over everybody else...
...image is so much more than an image that it is in many ways an example. He is never bitter, as Mort Sahl or even Jack Benny can be. His wisecracking toys with the limits of tact and taste but never crosses the line. He won't knock other stars, and he won't listen to gossip. He is loyal to old retainers, some of whom have been hanging around him since vaudeville days. He is a kind of universal uncle, likable and humane. Everywhere, that is, but on a golf course. There he is an amiable, hard...
BUSINESSMEN do not usually knock their own products, but bankers nowadays seem to feel that money is on the way out. Rudolph A. Peterson, 58, elected this week to the presidency of the Bank of America, believes that "in another ten years money will be more or less obsolete." As the new head of the world's largest bank, Swedish-born, California-raised Rudy Peterson hopes to hasten that day by moving the Bank of America further toward an automated time when it will handle everything from company payrolls to customers' milk bills. A credit expert and onetime...