Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end House Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted a fight in the House (which last session voted a 4?rate for all first-class mail) to knock out the fifth cent. Since the House is not likely to trim the spending, the cut would make the deficit even greater...
...bomb in a war . . . It would be as if I and a heavyweight champion boxer faced each other with revolvers, and I told him that I was'not going to be the first to fire. He would just say 'Splendid,' and put down his pistol and knock me for six with his fists." Said Sandys: "I really do not think I can put the position clearer than that." However noisy Labor's back benches, George Brown, speaking for the Opposition leadership, urged only that the actual construction of the missile bases be deferred until after...
...years. The remarkable thing is that it was made at all. In the midst of the shooting schedule, Director Juan Bardem, a 35-year-old Madrileno whose liberal opinions had not endeared him to the secret police of Franco's Spain, was awakened one chill dawn by a knock on the door. After eleven days of questioning in jail and protests by French intellectuals, he was released and allowed to finish the film. The experience, it would seem, did not intimidate...
Plans are already under way for such a center in Manhattan, to be run by the New York Board of Rabbis. The center, says Gordis, will "make available to all who knock at its door the guidance of the Jewish tradition in solving whatever problems confront them." Eventually, Gordis believes, Jewry may again take up "the challenge of the prophetic injunction" to be " 'a light to the nations...
ECONOMIC TROUBLES in Latin America will knock sizable dent in trade with U.S. this year. Latin nations are cutting down purchases of both machinery and consumer goods, will probably chop trade by 10% to less than $4 billion...