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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In an actual attack, an ICBM might spew out "decoys" designed to baffle the tracking radar-as was not the case last week-or an ionospheric nuclear blast might knock out the radar altogether. "As advanced as the Nike-Zeus system is-and we believe it to be quite advanced-it has serious weaknesses," said McNamara last winter. "There is widespread doubt as to whether it should ever be deployed." The fact is that nobody has an effective anti-missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Flyswatters | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...cries were so loud and the kicking so hard that the U.S. aid bill took a drubbing that not even the top-heavy vote could conceal. For an angry Congress, one member of the House summed up the prevailing attitude toward nations who receive U.S. money: "If they knock us, cut off their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Anger over Aid | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...malformed right leg that later required surgery. He still limps when he walks, and his feet are pancake-flat. Back home in Puerto Rico no one thought he would be a ballplayer at all. The Santurce Crabbers kept him sitting on the bench. "That kid was bowlegged and knock-kneed and had one leg shorter than the other," explains Santurce Owner Pete Zorilla. "A nice kid, yes. Full of laughs and fun, sure. But a ballplayer? No." What Cepeda did have was size and a pretty fair batting eye. In 1955, the Giants decided to risk $500 by signing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bateador of the Giants | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...Pathologist Jachimczyk's study showed that 1) Marshall had been hit on the head with sufficient force to knock him out; 2) there were bruises on his face; 3) he could hardly have shot himself five times, since one bullet pierced his aorta, one a lung, another the liver-any of which would have caused quick death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Still Digging | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...pages as O'Hara's chronicle dribbles to a stop. Hubie Ward was the frankest of phonies, but the moral is, or so the author says, that "people know when you are trying to be something you are not." In his short stories, O'Hara can knock chips off the old Hollywood chopping block with his eyes shut. But in The Big Laugh he writes as if Nathanael West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overexposure | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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