Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knocked Heads. In his efforts to reshape Tunisia as a modern nation, Bourguiba has had to knock heads together. Inevitably, some army officers resent the backseat role he gives the military. And Moslem religious leaders are angered by his attempt to abolish the day-long fasts of the month of Ramadan, and by his emancipation of women...
...martinet whose merciless, metronomic beat is in fact, a mask that covers weakness and insecurity. Such talk may have momentarily quieted Maazel, but it did not shake his confidence. Last week at Philharmonic Hall, he led a Beethoven Fifth Symphony in which fate really did seem to knock at the door; under Maazel. the horns spoke high German, and the double basses, which before had hidden shyly in the hall's odd acoustics, danced like circus elephants. Maazel had made an impressive return...
...their long, frustrating search for drugs that can knock out viruses, medical researchers have almost always been stumped by one basic problem: any virus-killing chemical must penetrate the body's own cells, and it usually destroys those cells along with the virus particles lurking in them. When the first effective use of a drug against a viral disease was reported last winter (TIME, Feb. 16), it seemed like the exception that proves the rule. Idoxuridine. or IDU, was successfully used for ulcers of the cornea and nearby parts of the eye that have little or no blood supply...
...fight with the kike man, which is written as if Friedman were trying to compose an allegory. When the man clobbers him on the ear, Stern "thrills with joy at still being alive," then feels "a warm shudder of sympathy for the man, who had been unable to knock him unconscious with the blow." He walks bloodily home, purged at first, then puzzled to find that the old fear of his enemy down the road is beginning all over again...
Eight for One. The silos, too, are mechanical marvels. Their massive doors and shock-mounting are so effective that only a direct missile hit could knock them out; Pentagon strategists figure an enemy would have to throw at least eight missiles at each one to have any assurance of destroying it. Each missile is suspended so that the earth could rock but the bird would still fly straight...