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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dealing with the expulsion consumed so much of the time that they neglected to organize the evening's campaign, and when they met up after a round of endorsement meetings to knock on doors, neither remembered to bring flyers...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stumped:Candidates Go the Distance | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...time evening rolls around, Tenney is nursing strep throat. She decided to knock on Weld Hall doors anyway...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stumped:Candidates Go the Distance | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...mucus-filled throat and inability to mock others. They told me I was on my period (Haha! See? Now why can't I do that with I-bankers?). Later I realized the truth: I was afraid. I was afraid of the enraged horde of budding consultants that would inevitably knock down my door, shouting invectives and threatening to stab me with their PalmPilot Styluses. I was afraid that a mob of investment bankers would conspire to give me brain cancer by surrounding me and calling each other with their cell phones. The truth of the matter was that I didn...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...debus in front of the Inn at Harvard and proceed down Bow Street. I sniff out a small party in Adams A entry. I knock on the window hoping to be allowed in, but I am very purposefully ignored. Crash attempt failed...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Just Can't Get Enough: One Night, 15 Parties | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Though we can hear music and people inside the Adams G suite, and though I had secured an actual invitation to this event while chatting at the Signet, we are forced to knock repeatedly before the door is unlocked for us. Once inside, I instantly pounce on Max Hirsch, the birthday boy, who, though the party seems to be at a subdued level, is anticipating much "busting of asses" on the dance floor. His friend agrees, "The night is but a fetus; I am predicting that later on people will be busting multiple asses...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Just Can't Get Enough: One Night, 15 Parties | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

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