Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fever, whipped young Rosewall in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2. Two days later, facing Australia's "Big Fellow," rangy Ken McGregor, Seixas was a whirlwind. Rushing the net behind one of the biggest services in the game, Seixas took just 58 minutes to knock McGregor right off Melbourne's Kooyong courts. Again it was in straight sets...
...seemingly endless chain-ten so far-of Jungle Jim pictures. Jungle Sam never spends more than half a million dollars on a film, and in 21 years of producing he has not made a single picture that lost money. "I got a kind of feeling, a knack," he claims. "Knock on wood-I've never been wrong...
...columns are full of opinions and hard-eyed writing on everything from sports and stuffed shirts to women and war. "Any man is in difficulty," writes Bachelor Cannon, "if he falls in love with a woman he can't knock down with the first punch." After Korea, he reported that "combat soldiers are the loneliest people in the world. What a man does in a period of war he carries around inside of him forever." When Herman Hickman, Yale's 300-lb. football coach resigned, Cannon began a column: "There is enough room in one of Herman Hickman...
GAINESVILLE, GA., which numbers 11,936 people, fixed itself a quota of $34,528. On its streets last week, practically every electric power and telephone pole bore Red Feather placards and the slogan "Give." Over the two local radio stations, at 30-minute intervals, sounded one loud knock, then seven more knocks, and finally a voice saying, "You'd rather have your door knocked once than seven times, wouldn't you? Give to the Community Chest!" (The knocks referred to the seven local agencies for which funds were being sought...
...appearance for dinner at any restaurant is royalty's warrant. Living alone with only a hot plate to cook on, he arises at three each afternoon and breakfasts simply on a boiled egg and warm milk. The business of his day starts at suppertime, when carefully chosen friends knock on the door of his cluttered apartment and escort him to dinner. Last week the Prince reached his 80th birthday, and all France rallied to wish him bon appétit. Some hundred of the nation's most famed restaurateurs and gourmets gathered to share with the master...