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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing for members of the academic fraternity to knock ROTC because of antimilitary sentiments. But those who seek to eliminate it from the college curriculum because the classes lack academic qualities and are "boring trade school courses" might well examine a few other programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...shift to pre-payment of medical costs is part of the Health Plan's drive to get healthy people to come in to the center. Knowing that the visits are paid for may knock down some of the psychological barriers that would keep patients from coming in for examinations. And Pollack sees little danger in this new influx of patients to his health center...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: American Medicine Heading for Collapse. . . | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...freak in the sense of being a unique individual, and chicken soup in the sense that he is a human being and nice as well." Last November Paul read about Johnny in an underground newspaper, dashed down to see him, brought him back to The Scene, then watched him knock 'em dead at the Fillmore East. Immediately, the word about Johnny began to spread through the pop underground, and four major record companies began bidding for his services. Columbia won, and Johnny's quick climb to fame was done. Pretty good for a guy who had doubts about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicken-Soup Freak | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...blustery ex-Royal Engineers officer named Major Ralph Bunting, who had been attached to a number of far-out political causes before teaming up with Paisley a year ago. Bunting's Boys soon began laying in wait for protest marchers, first to block their path and later to knock heads. Over New Year's, they bird-dogged a line of student demonstrators on a four-day, 75-mile protest walk from Belfast to Londonderry. On the final day, they ambushed the students, who reached their goal with 81 injured. That night, Londonderry's police-many of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: TROUBLE IN THE LAND OF ORANGE | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...capsule. The predictable result is that nearly all the "THC" now being consumed, by sniffing or otherwise, is not really THC at all. Instead, it may be talcum powder, an amphetamine ("benny"), LSD or, more likely, a tranquilizer no longer approved for human use but still used to knock out ailing rhinoceroses and elephants in zoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: The Trouble with THC | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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