Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last years of his life. Bachelor Prendergast became deaf-"so deaf." his old friend Van Wyck (The Flowering of New England) Brooks wrote of him, "that he could not hear the knock on the door when people came to see him. So his friends took to thrusting a newspaper under the door, which they rattled back and forth till he saw it. Prendergast did not greatly regret his deafness. He said he was glad to find that people did not shout the disagreeable things they had to say. Besides, he was never too deaf to hear good news from...
Slow but Sure. Above all, Schwartzwalder is looking for the kid who just plain likes to knock people down. No team in the nation plays rougher football than Syracuse. "Some teams try to figure out the easiest and fastest way to get over the goal line," says Schwartzwalder. "Well, we don't concentrate on the easiest or fastest way. We just concentrate on getting there. We believe in massing our men, and we start at tackle and make the enemy defend that spot so heavily he'll be weak elsewhere. The only way you can run effectively over...
...classes at the U. of P. But apparently the boy could learn in his sleep long before the hypnopaedia boom, and he had a trick memory besides. With these weapons he stole a passing grade on his bar examinations and then started an allout, seven-year campaign to knock off every bottle and blonde in Philadelphia...
Problem number one is Mr. McCormick who has clicked on 18 of 30 passes for 252 yards and one touchdown in Mass's two games this season. McCormick is a master of the long pass--"the knock-out punch of football" to Yovicsin...
...thus move the whole economy off center. Since January, reported the First National City Bank of New York, industrial production has shown "a classic pattern of rolling readjustment." Right now, that readjustment shows just enough recessive tendencies to prevent the economy from moving forward strongly but not enough to knock it into a recession. If auto sales live up to hopes, the whole picture could change rapidly...