Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good girl and a bad with customary felinity, and no one else could ever give as much to the lines, "It depends on who's in the saddle." Other nice ones are, "I liked that...I' like more...that was even better," and Bogart growling elsewhere, "He'd knock your teeth in and then kick you in the stomach for mumbling...
...Dancing Goat. Among the most successful alumni of Breland's university are his "Caseys at the Bat" (hens that play baseball). It takes a very short time, he says, for a hen to learn that when she tugs at a rubber ring, an electrically operated bat will knock a small ball toward a wire-screen outfield and a few grains of wheat will fall into a trough. So the hen pulls the ring, and then runs madly for "first base'' (the trough). If the ball is intercepted by mechanical "defensive players," she knows by experience that...
Prior Art. In Delta, Colo., a month after he sawed a hole in his cell door and escaped from the county jail, Harley Carringer, 24, was recaptured and put in the same cell, used the 50-lb. ball chained to his leg to knock off the new steel plate welded to the door, used the plate to break his heavy chains, escaped again by the same route...
...comes to the same thing in practice, but the sanctions are different. And I must say the humanist sanctions seem to me much better, much more reasonable, and much easier to put across to children. If we tell a child that he mustn't knock smaller children about, that he wouldn't like it if others did it to him . . . well, that is something he can understand. But talk about the loving purposes of God is a bit beyond him. And, of course, you're sowing the seeds of all these frightful intellectual problems later on, when...
...market slumped from 20% to 13%, and mergers cut the number of auto companies from eight to six. But by year's end, Chrysler was scoring a comeback with its new models and all auto companies were producing in high gear. And Ford, in a frantic attempt to knock Chevvie out of first place in the industry, turned out a new car every four seconds...