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Peering through the lace curtains at the elegant hallway inside, I knock timidly at the glass door. I hope only that my brother will be the only person awake in the house and that all of the dogs are safely locked away in some distant catacomb. On both points I am to be disappointed. After a few taps I hear a single distant barker, soon joined by another and then another. Suddenly I see that the whole hallway is a swelling mess of howling, leaping, nadly salivating dogs. All of them seem to be at least three feet tall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...There's nothing phony or hypocritical about being a rah-rah," says the spirited coach. "People try to knock the Harvard image, and if they can do that through the basketball program, they will. But we're not gonna give them the chance, because there'll be nothing in this program to knock...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: A Turnover For Harvard Basketball | 11/22/1977 | See Source »

...Benson is small, fast and a smart playmaker," captain Cook said yesterday. Benson resembles a smaller version of Hozack. The Needham native skates well, and Cook said, "He's hard to knock down--he has a wide gate...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Hockey Season Begins--At Last! | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

Since Ali makes his own rules, that decree may be ignored. But time is still counting out the 35-year-old Ali, and Norton and Young are stalking the champ, ready to knock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton and Young Out to Corner Ali | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

...Senate liberals won a skirmish, but they may have lost the war. Long, so far, seems to have had his way. Unless his conference committee colleagues knock out his rebate plan, Jimmy Carter's scheme to return the added cost of energy to consumers, not to the oil companies, will be d-a-i-d, dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Master of the Maze | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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