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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flattened by Rocky Marciano, and home to Seattle to watch him taking a licking from British Heavyweight Champion Don Cockell. A lesser man might have given up. Hurley was undaunted. Last month he arrived in London with Matthews in tow, and announced with infinite gall that his tabby could knock over Cockell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Talker | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...trenches across the roadway; they had totally removed the approaches to a couple of bridges, which were left resting on their supports in midair. The French brought up bulldozers and 200 sweating Communist prisoners to repair the road, much as the Communists also use "volunteers" when the French planes knock out their supply routes. At midday the column got moving again, past a sign that read: DON'T KILL. DON'T RAPE. DON'T BURN. DON'T ARREST YOUNG PEOPLE. At 1 p.m. our advance elements reached the first objective, Doaithan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Forward Lies the Delta | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Mike Romanoff, the famed phony prince, wise man and restaurateur who is a sometime arbiter of Hollywood society, allows him to appear for meals without a necktie. He is president and principal stockholder of a motion-picture producing company of his own, Santana Pictures, and at times, as in Knock on Any Door, In a Lonely Place and Beat the Devil, is, so to speak, his own high-paid employee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Survivor | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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