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Word: knockouter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crews entered the third 500 meters, Harvard's strongest leg, it began to look as if the oarsmen would deliver the knockout punch for win number 27 in the streak. But with 800 meters to go, the oarsmen, for the first time this spring, saw an opponent's boat closing...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Quakers KO Oarsmen by a Split-Second | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...person we choose for the job will have to combine all these qualities, and be in possession of a knockout personality, three irrefutable references (excluding next of kin, friends, teachers and past employers), and two "B" tickets from Disney World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Help Wanted | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

...natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks like a very funny lab sample of Venereal Disease germs and David Merrill as Ophelia Heartbeat is a knockout. The rest of the cast works well, too. But an extension of this paragraph must go to Japes Emerson, who plays Cardinal Cynne. Leering with the shifty paranoia of a male Jane Curtin, Emerson moves, under his clerical robes and Rasputin beard, with a pneumatic grace and, except for a deficient malevolent...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: A Canine in a Cummerbund | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...form of warfare-but 1977 will also be the year of the cinema jock. Rocky will be followed by a flurry of boxing movies: The Greatest, all about, natch, Muhammad Ali, who plays himself; Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as former Middleweight Champ Jake LaMotta; and a comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script is really a sequel to my book-a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Get Ready for Blood, Sweat and Women | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Alan's working on his suggestions. Cornelia's going to be a knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle Diary | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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