Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janet Dunbar. George Bernard Shaw's love life was strictly postman's knock as one torrid affair after another has been found to be only on paper. But for 45 years he was a testy but loyal husband, she a malleable wife in an oddly successful marriage...
Clay promised to knock out Liston in eight rounds. On paper, his boast might seem almost reasonable. Liston is somewhat heavier (215 lbs. v. 205 lbs.) and has a longer reach (7 in.), but Cassius is taller (6 ft. 3 in. v. 6 ft. 1 in.), faster, and has a big advantage in age (eight years). Yet few experts see it Clay's way. "Nobody's gonna beat Liston 'cept old age," said Joe Louis. "Clay doesn't know how to fight," agreed a ringwise trainer. "Liston will break him in half...
...knew a lot about the NATO defenses and weapons. He also knew Swedish defense sites and strengths, had access to key mobilization and communication plans. In Washington, he had access among other things, to detailed information on the U.S. Army's Hawk, radar-guided antiaircraft missile designed to knock down low-flying supersonic planes. The Russians are working hard to perfect a defense against low-level nuclear attack, and the Hawk could help them...
...stories originate not in an event but in a discovery-a correspondent, a writer or an editor has an impression, based on his own experience, that an old tradition is no longer honored or that a new mannerism is in vogue. It is easy to confirm (or sometimes to knock down) his hunch by checking with our correspondents in all parts of the country, who often turn up significant sectional variations in U.S. behavior that add to the story. An editor's observation that more teen agers spend their summer vacations working than used to when...
...Daddy") that Britons still paid up to 6 guineas ($17.64) for a rain-spattered seat, and raided the cooky jar to bet on Cooper (at odds ranging from 5-2 to 4-1). A 78-year-old lady even sent Cooper an embroidered pillow with a note pleading: "Knock out this Clay fellow in the first round, please...