Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...height, but in the southern town of Ambalangoda the streets are nearly deserted, save for police and army troops on patrol. Under orders to open the shops of Ambalangoda, the uniformed men move up and down the streets, using the butts of their automatic rifles to knock the locks off the shuttered storefronts. The shopkeeper would gladly comply, but that could cost him his life. A general strike has been ordered by the People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.), Sinhalese extremists who do not hesitate to signal their displeasure with bullets. "People are afraid of the army and even more afraid...
...Look at the Miami Dolphins. They throw for 500,000 yards but they also throw five interceptions. And those interceptions knock off 400 yards."--Michigan Coach Bob Schembechler on his football team throwing the ball 25 times or less...
Freshman goalie Chuckie Hughes slid across thefront of the net to knock away a Chris Greniershot late in the second period. He lunged into anear-split to deflect a Dave Burke slapshot. Hemade a glove save on Trent Andison's short shotwhile Cornell was in the five-on-three situation...
...They (Yale) had a very well coached team who was sky high to play us--everyone wants to knock off Harvard," Dooley said. "We'll have to play with the same intensity and emotion [against Brown in Providence Tuesday...
Cornell suffered its lone loss to St. Lawrence three weekends ago, and doing a favor for the second-place Saints (4-0 ECAC) is the last thing it has in mind. But the third-place Big Red needs to knock off the undefeated Crimson--giving St. Lawrence control of the league--if it wants to stay within a game of the league leaders...