Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry post-mortem after the rough-house Dartmouth-Princeton game which sidelined twelve players, including Princeton's All-America Halfback Dick Kazmaier (concussion and broken nose) and Dartmouth Quarterback Jim Miller (broken leg). Princeton Quarterback George Stevens accused Dartmouth End Don Myers of deliberately trying to knock Kazmaier out of the game; other Princetonians claimed that Myers had also wound up another play by booting a Tiger lineman in the back. ¶The rough & ready Southwest Conference produced a "grudge game" which even had the eyes of Texans popping. At one point a Texas substitute hurtled off the bench...
...angry young Chicago Negro named Willard Motley made a hit, four years ago, with his first novel, Knock on Any Door. It was the story of a murdering hoodlum, written in hoarse tones of social complaint, clearly implying that the whole mess was really society's fault, not the killer's. Many critics liked it, and later it was made into a movie with Humphrey Bogart...
Brandishing his cane, McKellar thundered, "I'm going to beat the tar out of you." Dunlap, 48, retorted, "If you were 40 years younger, I'd knock your teeth down your throat," and walked out of McKellar's office unbeaten, unharmed...
Spectators and M.P.s alike perked up their ears as Stuart went on to charge that monopolies are rampant in Canada. He called on the government to knock down tariff walls and let competitive, low-priced U.S. goods move into the Canadian market...
...Funsters Knock Kirkland...