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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dupuis cited other reasons for the team's weak offensive showing. "We stopped making the plays and started reacting to what Brown was doing," she said yesterday. "When we took shots across the goal mouth, there was no one there to knock the ball in. Earlier this year, everyone went pall-mall for the ball. Today we were cautious...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Stickwomen Battle to 0-0 Tie Crimson Fails to Show Brown Old Fire | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...Saturday, Radcliffe was the power. The Crimson stickwomen were on the top of the mountain, and it was once-beaten Princeton that was trying to knock them off. "For the first time this year, we were nervous instead of psyched," Dupuis said...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Tigers Claw Radcliffe Dreams | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

...view of the doomsayers, time is fast running out for this plundered planet. By the turn of the century, they argue, its once plentiful resources will be nearing exhaustion. That gloomy forecast has been increasingly disputed of late, and it takes another knock in a report soon to be published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. After three years of analysis, a team of economists headed by Nobel Prizewinner Wassily Leontief has concluded that world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century. Global abundance will also permit higher standards of living without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Looking Ahead | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that was never made explicit between Wray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES KING KONG | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...however; he won't tolerate petty injustice. One of his few outbursts of real anger is provoked by the smashing of his shop windows by two leering thugs, hit men for the dead informer. Michel and his friend Antoine (Jacques Denis) chase the vandals down, beat them and knock them into the river...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Father Knows Least | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

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