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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounded like someone was trying to knock down Annenberg," added Elli Thomson...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fire Consumes Shuttle Bus Near Annenberg Hall | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...With fashion dying on the continent, American designers raced to create a moderately high-priced look. It was by no means couture but still retained the notion of a label and so, we assume, a house of fashion. Agins points out that Tommy Hilfiger's designs are largely knock-offs of Ralph Lauren's designs which were the original knock-offs of the American flag--and this is so funny that I wish I could pass it off as my own observation...

Author: By John A. Burton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is Fashion Dead? | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...sense the flyer was silly, even meaningless. Blasphemy is to speak disrespectfully of religion. The dictionary says so. To give it a new meaning is a little like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass pretending to Alice that "glory" means "a nice knock-down argument." Pretending that blasphemy is denying one's dreams is as logical as claiming that extortion is a weak cup of tea or that homeopathy is picking up the telephone with one's foot. But of course what the author really meant is that desiring passionately is an infinitely more important thing that being mindful...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: On the Subject of Blasphemy | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...read everything, but he [wanted] to stay fresh. He still challenged his own assumptions about a book, about which he had written a knock-out article," Fertik said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Heimert Dies at 70 in N.Y. | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

This canvassing, billed as "Rally, Rock and Knock with Bill Bradley," will involve about 125 students from local colleges traveling to the site of the first primary for a "weekend of grassroots campaigning," according to the Bradley campaign...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Bill Bradley Week' Promises Fun and Games | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

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