Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relate to blacks. They've changed the direction of the black movement, used it for their own purposes without changing at all themselves. What kind of blacks do you get at Harvard anyway? Those guys wouldn't have related to the black movement at al before...I don't knock anybody down for that--life is like that in America. I'm not saying you should want to put your life on the line, but don't be a phony about...
...Knock on Wood. As if bent on self-destruction, man has made his water and air poisonous. Highways, airways and commuter railways have become choked to the suffocation point. The problems of the present may be deferrable, those of the future soluble. But by whom? Americans have traditionally sacrificed to educate their young and believed in the next generation's competence to settle a troubled world. Today that assumption is widely questioned. Education in its Latin origin means to bring up, but on American campuses recently, extremists have often made the process seem more like a bringing down...
...managed to survive for some time now, catch as catch can, the fat and the lean, and if the dinosaurs don't trample us to death, and if the grasshoppers don't eat up our garden, we'll all live to see better days, knock on wood...
...Green. The tourney began in the morning; at high noon (the hour Sussex taverns open), the referee cried "Smug!" and the tournament ended. The rules are wondrously simple: 49 marbles are placed in the "pitch" (ring) and each member of the competing teams takes his turn at trying to knock one out. Shooting is a thumbs-only proposition-a flick of the wrist constitutes a "fudge" (foul) and disqualifies the contestant for that round. As in pool, each successful shot merits another, and the team that picks up the most marbles wins...
Desecrate the highways with your abominable posters, if that is your fancy. Laugh at our valiant invasion of Anguilla. Sneer at De Gaulle. Even make friends with the Ruskies. All these will I forgive thee, but knock the Block? Never...