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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would knock on my door and when I opened hewould push me aside and rush to my bookcase to seewhat new books I had bought," Epps says. "He wasintellectually precocious by any standard...

Author: By Cornel West, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: West Returns to Harvard, Joins Afro-Am Dream Team | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

Bauer said if he were in Clinton's position, hewould have moved faster when allegations of spyingcame to light and would "knock some heads...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GOP's Bauer Blasts U.S. China Policy | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...goes into the refrigerator of his trailer for an energy bar and makes sure it has the right ratio of protein to carbohydrates. "In the trailer park where all the drivers live in their coaches, if you're out of skim milk or tuna, you know what door to knock on, because you know who's on what diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR: Babes, Bordeaux & Billy Bobs | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...technology that may or may not be put to use by Beijing won't even make the missiles more accurate, just smaller. Some of their new nukes might be more mobile and harder to find. So in a nuclear war, the U.S. probably wouldn't be able to knock out as many Chinese missiles; of course, in nuclear war, it's hard to imagine that mattering all that much. Indeed, if the current furor has any useful purpose, it might be to remind U.S. weaponry hawks that very little of the feverish work that goes on in Los Alamos these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If We Declared Cold War Two and Nobody Came? | 5/27/1999 | See Source »

...wife Tipper. Several campaign aides described Tipper as the godmother of the shuffle, the biggest fan of the deal. One added that Tipper, far more than the half-dozen bickering guys in Gore's inner circle, "knew there had to be some help in here. Somebody was needed to knock some heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Tipper Effect | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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