Word: knockouts
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...rippling pool of fear. Some teachers now send little girls to the bathroom in pairs. Young women say they are afraid to take a shower or run the hair dryer; the noise could mask an assailant's approach. At college parties, many coeds clutch their cocktail glasses, worried that knockout drops could be slipped into their drinks...
When her first TV series debuted on Oct. 15, 1951, there was no way to tell that Lucille Ball was beginning an apparently immortal love affair with the American public, and not much reason even to expect commercial success. Ball was a comely redhead with a semisultry voice and knockout legs, but she was also nearly 40 and a veteran of almost two decades in the supporting ranks of show business. She had been a movie actress but hardly a superstar; she had enjoyed moderate success in radio but had only fleeting experience in the new medium of video...
...going to be a pit-bull fight," Harvard Assistant Coach John Anz said. "Hopefully, we will come out a little less bloody. There's not going to be a quick knockout. It's going to be a split decision. It's a fight to the death, there is no in-between...
...blows kept furiously raining down, and Joseph's smile began to fade. When the board voted that Monday, Giuliani had already turned three close Milken associates into Government witnesses by granting them immunity from prosecution. The knockout power of an indictment under the 1970 Racketeer ! Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was also greatly feared. Charges under RICO, developed to prosecute the Mafia and other organized criminals, would allow Giuliani to tie up much of Drexel's $2.3 billion of capital -- including the fortunes of the firm's 1,700 employee stockholders -- throughout a lengthy trial...
...Hembrick, 22, captain of the U.S. team, missed a bus and never got a chance to fight. Featherweight Banks, 23, should have missed his; he got careless midway through the first round ^ against Regilio Tuur of the Netherlands, ran into a hard right hand and suffered a one-punch knockout that left him unconscious for a full three minutes. "I never saw it, didn't even feel it," Banks said after an overnight hospital stay...