Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most people could not pronounce his name. He came from the back courts; he applauded his opponent's best shots; if he thought an adversary had got a bad linesman's call, he would chivalrously knock his next return into the net. He smiled his toothy grin when his rivals snarled or cursed. But last week Manuel Orantes, 26, an optician's son from Barcelona, took the center court at Forest Hills in the U.S. Open tournament and beat the stuffing out of Jimmy Connors, 23, who has a lot of stuffing and some of the best...
Student resentment often focuses on Harvard professors, who many believe are not doing as much as they could for their students. One graduate student comments, "In times gone by, people did come by and knock on your door...Those days are gone, and I don't think some of the professors have adjusted to it. They don't want to go and beat bushes for their students...
...unions were not as powerful, the clock would go back because I don't think that breed ever alters. We just don't work as partners. When they want something, they talk about common interest. But whenever we've needed anything, we have either had to knock it out of them or almost rape them...
Commercial composers knock out as many as six full-length scores a year, along with other assignments. For a 110-minute feature film they allow between six and eight weeks. A 90-minute TV movie can be polished off in two weeks. Jerry Goldsmith, 46, a veteran of some 65 films, churned out the music for Chinatown in ten days...
...short-term money-at which individuals decide to buy higher-yielding Government and commercial securities instead of putting their spare cash into savings accounts, where rates of return are limited by law. Such a development, says President Maurice Mann of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, "would knock housing on its back again before it even got up." Housing starts rose a heartening 14% in July from June, but a continued revival of the industry depends on an ample supply of mortgage money. The cash in the loan drawers of the nation's savings and loan associations...