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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister of Agriculture and Economy and its strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death to the man who answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: End of the Road | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Actress McCambridge. a talented player with long experience in radio and TV (she won a supporting-actress Oscar in All the King's Men), achieves a believable, blank-mask expression of insanity. The other performers seem bewildered most of the time by the direction of Nicholas Ray (Knock on Any Door, Flying Leathernecks), who works with the misguided brilliance of a myopic Pygmalion. Almost every separate part of the picture comes to life in one way or another, but none quite fits into the whole. At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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