Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stanford University, a fraternity man entertaining a coed in his room responded to a knock at the door and was confronted by seven nude males, each carrying a golf bag. "May we play through?" asked one. In Knoxville, Term., vowing that they would not be "outstripped by any state," scores of University of Tennessee students raced nude down Cumberland Avenue, even taking to the roofs to sit atop a second-story billboard and astride an ornamental bull...
Still, it's something of a mystery how DiCara expects to knock off Republican incumbent John F.X. Davoren in November, let alone eliminate a strong field of Democratic contenders. But such mysteries are nothing new to DiCara. Nobody predicted that he would poll the third highest vote total in the city council elections last election day--that is, nobody except DiCara. The ambitious councilor has a deceptive support that is unlike that of any other politician in Boston. His political strength is a lucid memory and a quick recall of the names and faces of almost anyone he has ever...
...class, the class before him and the one after," says one of DiCara's old classmates. "He could walk through the Yard and be bombarded by hellos." DiCara made his Harvard contacts through various means, including parties, classes and selling refrigerators for Harvard Student Agencies. "I would knock on the door of about one sixth of the freshman class, peddling those iceboxes," DiCara says...
...like a fight between a pair of alley cats over the beautifully manicured female (the ECAC trophy) that looked longingly at them from a window. The teams clawed at each other from the start, though at times tentatively, recognizing that neither of them had the ability to knock out the opponent...
...nationally televised news conference last week, the President contended that the rollback would deepen gasoline shortages, presumably by discouraging oil companies from stepping up exploration and production. Supporters of the provision say that it would knock gas prices down as much as 4? per gal. and still give oilmen more than enough incentive to boost output-since the rolled-back price would still be higher than any prevailing before late last year...