Word: knockings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rapidly. Multiple warheads seemed an inexpensive way to expand the U.S. nuclear force. But what strategists overlooked was the fact that the large number of warheads packed onto a small number of missiles make them a tempting target for a first strike. In a surprise attack, an aggressor could knock out as many as ten or more warheads by hitting a single silo. Says Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, who strongly supports the Bush proposal: "I can see a regime on both sides where we have single-warhead missiles in silos. There is no reason to go first...
After that, forget it. The plot, based on a true story, has a vengeful wife (Tracey Ullman) determined to knock off her philandering husband (Kline), but the fellow proves strangely indestructible. This sort of homicidal fable demands the stiletto of satire -- the very weapon flourished by Italian director Pietro Germi in his brilliant '60s comedies Divorce Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned. But what played in Sicily for Germi doesn't work in Tacoma, Wash., for Lawrence Kasdan. This crime does not spring from the polluted mores of a medieval society; it is the private whim of an exasperated woman...
Action: A knock at the door of the jail. Guards, inmates and visitors swigging beer to celebrate the deputy warden's birthday are expecting a delivery of more brews. Surprise! Black-hooded renegades crash the festivities and escape with Billy Bibit...
...really fast time that, in my infinite cockiness, I had thought I could also achieve. After a few miles, I realized that I would not be able to sustain this pace and settled into a more manageable speed. For the next three hours and 20 minutes, I would knock off mile after mile, battle fatigue and pain--force my body to keep running even when it was screaming to stop...
...programs, we see that we're doing all right by comparison." Alvin Poussaint, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an adviser to The Cosby Show, suggests that these shows, with their exaggerated nastiness, are an "outlet for people who feel, yeah, they really would like to knock the kid in the head, but they know it's wrong...