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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoping to retain links with the liberation movements. However, he found that the liberation movements weren't acknowledging him, so now he's gone in with the present power structure in terms of sticking with things they'll tolerate. Further than that I wouldn't like to knock him. He's a courageous man who has criticized apartheid consistently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investment in South Africa: Donald Woods Speaks Out | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

...amazing." He notes that uniforms are sexual-enlarged head and shoulders, narrow waist and skintight pants accented by a molded codpiece. The jargon too is erotic: "score," "down," "piling on" (gang rape), "popping" an opponent (overtones of defloration) and "sacking" the quarterback (plunder and rape). Players try to knock opponents down, putting them in the "supine, feminine position." Indeed, says Dundes, "football is a ritualized form of homosexual rape. The winners feminize the losers by getting into their end zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Football as Erotic Ritual | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...almost pathetic hopefulness of the motto of the Tuskegee Institute class of 1886?"There's always room at the top" ?finally gave way to the angry oath of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee leader in 1965: "If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the f???-legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: As American as Jesse James | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...hiding. In the book, his mania produces the possibility of a brilliant escape. He yells to the crowd of onlookers, "Frenchmen! This is a rehearsal ... A famous film actor will presently come running out of this house. He is an archcriminal, but he must escape Hold those policemen, knock them down, sit on them - we pay them for it." In the movie he says these lines, but, un accountably, only after he has been captured, when the old master's marvelous conceit has lost its point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doubled Up | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Funny things happen to about 400 men during their sophomore year. They hear a knock on the door, and rising to answer it, they notice an ivory envelop which has been slipped under the door. The door is opened, and sleuth-like, the messenger is nowhere to be seen...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: From Pig to Porc: The Changing World of Final Clubs | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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