Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opportunity never knocks on the door," said Thomas John Watson. "You have to knock on opportunity's doors, and they are all around us." Tall and spare with a kindly, canny Scots face, T. J. Watson did not knock hard enough for opportunity's door to open wide until he was 40. But then, he transformed Manhattan's tiny Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. into International Business Machines Corp., a company that now circles the globe with 188 U.S. offices and six plants, another 227 offices and 17 smaller plants in 80 nations. For his hard knocking, opportunity...
Chief Justice Vinson, questioned about dissents in the court, once exploded; "Look, these are nine guys, all with some reputation, ability and confidence in themselves. If any Chief Justice can knock their heads together and get unanimity he's better than I am." Earl Warren, by persuasion rather than head-knocking, won unanimity in all the desegregation decisions. And it is in testament to his skill and effectiveness as Chief Justice that his will and his liberal bent have come to dominate the Supreme Court over the last year...
...from Dixie? In Tampa, annoyed by being forced into street fights with strangers, Ohio-born Robert E. Lee complained to U.S. deputy marshals: "Every time I tell them my name down here, they knock me down. They think I'm being sacrilegious or something...
...about the most exciting young fighter in the game, and wild-eyed Tommy Jackson, 24, a fistic freak whose boundless energy and impervious head have thwarted most of the best men in the heavyweight division. To prove he was ready for man's estate, young Patterson needed to knock the ears off Jackson...
...Medic, started a year and a half ago in an attempt to knock CBS's I Love Lucy from the No. 1 position in the ratings, will fold up its scalpels and silently steal away in August. The last Nielsen ratings found Lucy still No. 1, Medic No. 81. Both sponsors (Procter & Gamble and General Electric) failed to renew their options, and NBC plans to return to the attack on Lucy with a new series of filmed thrillers called Impact...