Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That timetable is highly controversial. For one thing, it would knock out of the running as the earliest hominid, or manlike creature, a favorite contender of many paleontologists, the small and apelike Ramapithecus (for the Hindu epic hero Rama), whose bones were first found in India and who died out some 10 million years ago. Perhaps more important, so recent a split would seem to allow far too little time for the development of a creature as sophisticated as modern...
...style and elevation to the Senate make him one of the G.O.P.'s brightest new stars. Moreover, in the age of TV his stunning blond wife Diane and two handsome teen-age sons are also politi cal assets. A conservative on money matters, he appealed across party lines to knock Democratic Incumbent William Hathaway out of office. Cohen is expected to prove especially forceful in arguing for party positions in the Senate when he sides with them, but firmly independent when he does...
...Carter's determination to keep up the anti-inflation campaign despite the troubles it is bound to cause will be how much he can hold down federal spending and stem the flow of budgetary red ink. In January the Administration will send Congress proposals for small cuts designed to knock as much as $3 billion off the $39 billion deficit now forecast for fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. Over the weekend, as an earnest of his anti-inflationary intentions, Carter vetoed bills that in effect would have limited imports of low-priced beef and textiles and appropriated ten times...
...Technical Services Division and Muscovite Vasily Borgneff, his KGB counterpart. Each is his country's genius of UKDs (Unusual Killing Devices); each, independently, has decided to retire from the killing game. Both are then marked for "extraction" by their agencies (they know too much). To survive, the assassins must knock off the five top section bosses of their respective outfits in Colonial Williamsburg and rustic Zhukovka. The odd couple?Dirty Eddie and cosmopolitan Vasily?get to pool their talents through a seductive Washington connection named Chalice, whom they also share...
...famous case, when they banned Black Beauty (because of its title). While in Pretoria, I realize I have a banned novel in my suitcase, Alex LaGuma's Fog at the Season's End. For a moment, I feel as if the whole South African security force is about to knock on the door; reassured, I realize I am only liable to a $650 fine, just for reading a novel. It rather makes me long for the First Amendment--and rather makes me wish more white South Africans could read works by the black South Africans who have portrayed so clearly...