Word: knockings
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...Buddy O'Neil must feel like Sharrach, Mesach, and Abednego entering the burning, fiery furnace every time they set foot in the Palestra. The Quakers have beaten the Crimson sixteen consecutive times and hold a 73-17 series advantage. Harvard may have its best shot in ages to knock off Chuck Daly's foundering squad on Saturday...
...listen to the satirist and stop acting stupidly. It is this sense that still animates Swift's A Modest Proposal, two centuries after its original topicality. The moral certainty that once propped up satire has faded also. Wolfe is too canny to convey any advice except an implicit "knock it off." If he went further, he could easily spend the rest of his days on the chicken-salad circuit, pumping for apple-pie virtues. He would no longer be a purveyor of satire but a target...
...more effective than the X rays normally used in cancer therapy. Their advantage lies in the combination of their mass (they are heavy by subatomic standards) and high energy, which makes them ideal "cue balls" in a kind of atomic billiard game: penetrating deep into large tumors, they knock protons and other particles out of the atoms of the cancerous cells. That creates general biochemical havoc, breaking DNA strands and hampering cell reproduction-thus killing the malignancy...
...Crimson also lost a number of runners to graduation, most notably tricaptains Joel Peters and Sam Butler. Still, they provided the field men with the balence needed to knock...
...course a man edged up to Stewart in the hotel lobby, gave him the password, and said "Follow me." He led him out of the hotel lobby and through the lushly landscaped gardens to a bungalow. At the door he gave a coded knock ?one rap, followed by four quicker raps, a pause, and then two more raps. It was a knock Stewart would use hundreds of times in years to come...