Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tufts the day before, it was a morale-boosting afternoon. First baseman Frank Saia rapped out five safeties in as many at bats, Tom Bergantino blasted a homer in the varsity's eight-run eighth, and perhaps most encouraging of all, Kent Hathaway connected for three timely singles to knock in five Crimson runs...
...Hollis Hall. From the time he was given the rooms until 1932, when doctor's orders forced him to move, Hollis 15 was the most famous address in the College. Once a week, Copey would read aloud to anyone who cared to climb the four flights of stairs, knock on the door, and wait for command "Come in. Come in." from the imperiously courteous dweller...
...smoked cigars to save on matches and always wore a pearl-gray suit. He carried a cane which he held high in the air to stop Harvard Square traffic, causing one truck driver to remark, "Who do you think you are--Santa Claus?" He also used his cane to knock the hats off students rude enough to wear them inside Widener. An associate of Leverett House, his portrait hangs in the Dining Hall there...
...under way without the help of the Johnson resolution. ¶ The Senate passed a $1.8 billion housing bill, 86 to 0, with 44 Republicans supporting the measure authored by Alabama Democrat John Sparkman. At one point Democratic politics came through loud and clear, when the Democrats tried to knock out a provision permitting an increase of interest rates on G.I. loans from 4½% to 4¾%-an increase that will encourage private lenders to handle the now-shunned G.I. loans. The increase was permitted to stand only because Vice President Nixon threw his vote to the Republican side...
Such banishments are commonplace in post-revolution Hungary. The police knock, and later a Western visitor notices that some person he has known has disappeared. Most Hungarians tapped by the police leave when ordered, and quietly; the alternative is jail. In the nightclubs patronized by foreigners, the bar girls are new, placed there by the police to watch and listen...