Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK CITY'S J.F.K.: Pilots knock the big airport for doing a poor job of removing snow, allowing too many maintenance vehicles on the airfield and using unsafe noise control...
...dismiss the setbacks as temporary. They admit that the customarily well-oiled AFL-CIO lobbying apparatus stumbled badly on the common-situs bill by ignoring warnings that the measure was in trouble until 48 hours before the vote. But, says Thomas Donahue, Meany's top assistant, "when you knock us down once, you don't get any prize. We've been down before, dusted ourselves off, and come back-and we will again...
...night; a prostitute, before taking on a customer, matter-of-factly washing his genitals in the sink along with the dishes. But Joel Seria is the kind of literal-minded director who, when a character has to leave his car, cross a road, cut along a field and knock on the door of a house, follows him with the camera every tedious step of the way. The painter may want to be behind his subjects, but the film as a whole makes the mistake of lagging far behind the viewer's imagination...
...what worries Ugandans more than economic chaos is the post-midnight knock on the door or the tap on the shoulder in broad daylight. It can come from any of three organizations, and it is hard to say which one is the worst...
...politicians. And the President planned to get over to the National Theater later to watch James Whitmore in Bully!, a roaring portrayal of Teddy Roosevelt. It might help when he gets there if Carter recalls that sometimes, when the sun was up and his juices were flowing, Roosevelt would knock off work at noon and take his family for a picnic down along the Potomac River. It might not be quite as good as a tax cut, but the therapeutic value to the national soul has been underestimated since about...