Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wessel further indicated that officials of the Department of Buildings and Grounds had recently conferred "with several Deans about which House to knock off." Leverett and Kirkland were apparently chosen because of their comparatively small sizes...
...Whenever the 'pench' gets down near the vanishing point, we shall have to knock off another House. That's what will be settled today...
Tubful for the Dry Day. In a country where moneymaking opportunities knock incessantly at a successful politician's door, Café Filho has conspicuously neglected to get rich. At 55, he has no savings to speak of. no income except his salary.* Instead of moving into the ornate presidential suite in Catete Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira...
There are hundreds of new hobby and model kits. Strombecker has knock-down dollhouse furniture (7-and 8-piece sets for $2.50) to give aspiring Chippendales a chance to prove their talents; when they have finished making their own furniture, they can assemble a prefab, 6-room dollhouse from a Keystone Wood Toys kit ($14.95). Renwal Manufacturing Co. has a Be a Designer set ($4.98) with 29 pieces of miniature furniture, paints and traceable designs to make the plastic pieces look different. For more advanced work, Walter L. Herne Co. has a three-sided furnished room ($5) with different wallpapers...
Rarely in the Communist world, where scuffles are generally muffled, has there been such an open, knock-down fight as in Hungary last week. It began 15 months ago when Hungary's Communist bosses admitted that they had overplanned, overcentralized and overcontrolled Hungary into chaos. They had blindly produced a big iron and steel industry but few consumer goods; they had made a statistical success of forced collectivization but the result was a fall in production and a shortage of food. The traditional granary of central Europe was on short rations and forced to import grain. Workers grumbled over...