Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like people who go to Yale," the assailant said, and proceeded to cut up and knock down Tice in a short tussle...
...first thing a husband needs is enthusiasm. "The word . . . stems from the Greek and means . . . 'God-inspired.'" Husbands also need "building-up"("Praise his taste in ties") and constant reassurance (tell him "he's going to knock those buyers dead!"). The conviction that hubby is a roaring success must be maintained "at home, across the breakfast table, in bed." It must not be undermined by cracks. Never greet your husband with the words: "Well, how's the Boy Genius? Did you bring home any commissions? I suppose you know the rent is due next week?" Other...
...biggest was best for Mexico-and for themselves. They remembered well the maxim of President Manuel Avila Camacho's brother: "If you build a road for 75,000 pesos and pocket 1,000, everybody will howl. But if you build a road for 75 million pesos and knock Dack a million, nobody will notice...
Some of the cargo ships have been engaged in traffic with Red China, and some of the tankers, using underpaid foreign crewmen, have underbid U.S.-owned tankers enough to knock U.S. seamen out of jobs. Admiral Burger expects to seize about 75 ships before he is done and, if the courts uphold him, sell them over again...
...walked out on a Russian movie. A Texas corporal was forced to stand on tiptoe, his hands tied behind his back, his neck in a noose that would choke him if he sagged. Some were beaten. Said Sergeant Fisher Watkins: "They pistol-whipped me, but they didn't knock me down." He added confidently: "They couldn't hit you that hard...