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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season closes the weekend of November 14, when the Crimson hosts the Ivy League Tournament. The spikers may not be ready to knock off 1985 champion Princeton yet, but they should have a chance to improve on last year's seventh--and last--place finish...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Awaiting Results of a Complete Makeover | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...intensely loyal, sponsoring raffles and fashion shows to benefit WVCA and sending in a steady trickle of contributions, which are not tax deductible. One listener shrugs off the work- sex slur, saying "Some people do both." Another says Geller has given so much to Gloucester he's entitled to knock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...WHEN Tommy Walker, the man who played central roles at the Los Angeles Olympics Celebration and the Statue of Liberty salute, is billed as the producer, people tend to expect a show that will knock their socks off--or at least send them flying off their commemorative seat cushions...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: A Fair Celebration for Fair Harvard | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...result of that assiduousness, Lauren has been criticized as being a promoter rather than a designer, a copycat who turns traditional ideas into high-priced knock-offs. Case in point: his lined dungaree jacket with corduroy collar, a $98 rendering of an item that sells for about $35 with the Lee blue- jean label. Yet what Lauren is accused of taking from tradition is & systematically reborrowed from him by dozens of his smaller competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...popular ones (Rolling Stone). It covers such categories as media talk (show biz, glitz), government lingo (lame duck, on the stump), business idioms (the fine print, three-martini lunch) and cocktail patter (networking, finger food, breaking the ice). The final exam: a mock bash at which students will knock down real cocktails, press the flesh and chat up guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking Turkey: Foreigners learn the lingo | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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