Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report ripped the intelligence system for "outdated preconceptions" that caused it to ignore revealing information supplied by field commanders and others in the days preceding the war. The false preconceptions included the belief that the Egyptians would not go to war unless they were able to knock out a sizable percentage of the Israeli air force. This estimate, said the report, ignored the Egyptians' modern, Soviet-supplied missiles, which substantially neutralized the Israeli air force. Even when the intelligence chiefs belatedly concluded on Oct. 6 that an attack was imminent, they misjudged the time by a fatal four hours...
...Celtics now need only one game to knock Buffalo out of the playoffs. The teams meet again in Buffalo on Friday...
...been difficult and boring trying to analyze the 1969 No-Knock Law during Christmas vacation, while foghorns wailed in the distance. He could hear the foghorns because he lived on the Rhode Island coast, a long way from the 1969 No-Knock...
While Rutledge was not in contention for the sabre title himself, he had a direct hand in determining the winner, turning back NYU's Peter Westbrook, 5-2, to hand the Violet star his first loss in the NCAAs in two years and knock him into a tie with Wayne State's Steve Danosi for first in sabre. Danosi bested Westbrook in the fence-off for the title...
...raiders were not roaming gangsters; they were federal narcotics agents on the hunt for illicit drugs. Since 1970, the narcs, as they are known, have been operating under the "no-knock" provisions of a law intended to allow them to burst into a dwelling without warning so that their quarry will not have time to dispose of any drugs. But in a number of incidents across the country, including those in Illinois, the agents have been accused of conducting unauthorized or overzealous assaults...