Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the prisoner's testimony, many spectators expected a quick verdict. Indeed, three minutes after the jury left the courtroom to deliberate, Judge Hamilton Hobgood was giving a folksy thank-you speech to lawyers and reporters when he was interrupted by a knock on the door. But instead of a verdict, it was a juror with a question: "Where's the sugar for the coffee?" No matter. It took the six white and six black jurors only 1 hr. and 25 min. to reach the obvious decision: not guilty...
Maggie is sitting on the floor of her room, her back to the window that overlooks the courtyard where the team can be seen coming back from the river. The "Sleeping" sign is no longer on her door, but she can't hear anyone knock because her hair dryer makes so much noise. Her hair is flowing down her shoulders, clean and wavy and blonde, and her light blue eyes peer out from under it with a soft, sad look in them...
...were betting that Cairo would back down, partly because of fail-safe ambiguities in Fahmy's letter, partly because they are convinced that Egypt is not remotely prepared for another war. Jerusalem even suspected that Fahmy was a straw man setting up the issue so that Sadat could knock it down...
...civilization which this 18-hole wonder slithers through is detailed and vast, set--appropriately in this Bicentennial year--in the colonial style of our forefathers. The Liberty Bell, Paul Revere's Ride, a Puritan Village--all these chapters of our history are arranged perfectly in order that we may knock golf balls through them. The price is steep--$2.50--but a miniature golf course this made-to-order is worth much more...
...champ ended his lecture within its predicted 30 minutes saying. "It's always a victory to finish a thing in a set time," alluding to his habit of predicting the round in which he will knock out his opponent...