Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman and chief auctioneer Peter Wilson pounded his small ivory hammer to begin the sale, 400 buyers filled the firm's chandeliered main auction salon; closed-circuit television brought the auction to four smaller rooms and the nearby Westbury Hotel ballroom for the overflow. As Wilson proceeded to knock down one record price after another, the dizzying figures were flashed on an electronic board above him in pounds, U.S. dollars, French francs, Italian lire, West German deutsche marks, Japanese yen and Swiss francs...
...Knock That Sake
Fedayeen on both sides of the Litani seemed particularly bitter about the French troops. 'They came in thinking this was Algeria," complained a young commander of the P.F.L.P., "and that they could knock people around as they pleased." For their part, the French, whose headquarters are just south of Tyre but who are not permitted by the Palestinians to enter the city itself, spoke bitterly about what they called "the lies" being spread about them. Clearly, the French paratroopers have been stunned by the serious wounding of their commander, Colonel Jean-Germain Salvan, in a fight with a Palestinian...
...locals, who was the last Red Sox player before Fred Lynn in 1975 to knock in ten runs in a game...
Along the way, Congress probably will knock out nearly all the revenue-raising reforms that the President has proposed. Many of those changes would strike at corporations and rich people, but two major ones−tightening medical deductions and eliminating deductions for state sales taxes−would hit middle income individuals. Those proposals have fanned hostility to the whole program...