Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When it came to negotiating, what I wanted was someone to go in there and knock heads," says Messersmith. "If an athlete who has been pampered ever since he was a kid is inserted into a heavy business situation, he gets chewed up." Like many other stars, Messersmith negotiates through an agent, Herb Osmond, who enables his client to confine his pitching to the field...
...rough week." In New York, he had hoped to do far better than his poor fourth place with 35 delegates, behind Jackson with 104, Udall with 70 and a block of 65 uncommitted delegates. In Wisconsin, Carter had hoped to win by a big enough margin to knock Udall out of the race. Instead, in a contest so close that NBC and ABC at first projected Udall as the winner (see THE PRESS), Carter got 37% of the vote, Udall 36%, George Wallace 13% and Jackson...
...illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne. And then there was Texas, my home, the home of both the murder and the murder of the murderer. And then there were the bigots and the dividers and the Eastern intellectuals who were waiting to knock me down before I could even begin to stand up. The whole thing was almost unbearable." But Johnson presided over the transition with such compassion and acumen that for a few months at least, he came close to achieving his lifelong ambition of getting everybody to love...
...telegram...with its necessary knock and its flagrant yellow, and its curt phrase of necessary English--I know not which sense was more offended--hit me in the wing and I fell a heaped corpse upon the earth. The sense, if that can be said to have sense which has so little sound, was to discredit the respectability of a house in Fitzroy Square. And there you see me in the mud. Shall I argue that a mind that knows not Gibbon knows not mortality? or shall I affirm that bad English and respectability are twin sisters, dear...
...students hope that Knock Knock has a long run, but they miss having Seltzer at Princeton full time. For one thing, the bachelor professor now has little time to uphold his reputation as the best chef on campus. He has been forced to cut back on the Indian and Szechuan Chinese dinners he cooks for his students. But what students miss most are his classroom dramatics. Says Sophomore Chad Restum: "Dan can do a reading involving three characters and never make a mistake with the different voices." The day when Seltzer is back performing at the podium may come none...