Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtained house at 17 Fourth Street in the factory district of Waterbury, Conn. After the guards were set, plainclothesmen walked up the steps and pounded loudly on the front door. The downstairs lights winked on, and stocky, smiling, pajama-clad George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor, answered the knock. His two elderly spinster sisters watched warily in the background. George never lost his polite grin. "I think.'' he said after a few preliminary questions and answers. "I know why you fellows are here. You think I'm the Mad Bomber...
...fight had hardly started before the broken-nosed, beetle-browed young brawler was sure he could win. After mixing it up in Madison Square Garden for six rounds with Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, Challenger Gene Fullmer, 25, walked back to his corner and said, "I can knock him out, Marv. Lemme open up and knock...
Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). With classical selections and light commentary, attempts to knock down the intellectual fence around longhair music...
...ball with such polished skill, shot with such consistent effect that they more than backed up his boast that Carolina teams rank with the best collegiate teams around. "We're all rough at home," says McGuire, ruefully reflecting on the unpleasant truth that North Carolina's teams knock each other off so consistently that their won-lost records suffer and they tend to slump in the national rankings. "But we can take any outsider. Any visiting team that comes down this way has a rough time getting through 'Tobacco Road...
...dances with the girl in a forward way. "That's how I operate." he murmurs, breathing hard, "two times normal and twice as fast." They all drive away in Tom's car, and for most of the next hour Actor Quinn has nothing to do but knock the hero down and push the heroine over...