Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were getting no sleep. Last week a Detroit Times reporter investigated. When he heard a ghostly rapping in his car, he stopped and asked a resident for an explanation. Snapped John Novak: "There is no ghost, and no child was killed on this street. We have been hearing this knock for three years-ever since they put in the new pavement of cement slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate on each other...
...same vote, Egypt announced its intention to rule the Sudan alone, which Britain and Egypt have jointly administered since 1899. Fired by the brave deeds of Parliament, Cairo mobs howled: "Give us arms. Where are the arms?" Egypt's bloodthirsty Moslem Brotherhood vowed to "knock at the doors of heaven with the heads of the British." At Port Said, the northern entrance to the Suez Canal, student gangs looted stores, over turned a British ambulance, careened through a British army camp hurling "Salah-el-Din cocktails" (homemade fire bombs named for the Foreign Minister). Eleven British army vehicles were...
...half it was all Dartmouth, with the play in the Crimson's some most of the time. The Green scored its first goal at 19:50 of the first period when right outside Art Judson's corner kick was batted down by Dick Craven only to have Bon Drawbaugh knock it in. The play was questionable as the corner kick apparently curved out and then in again...
Sometime this week a solicitor will knock on your door and hand you a pledge for the Combined Charities Drive. Don't turn him down. The committee is trying to raise more than the $20,000 contributed last year, and the need is greater than ever...
...Senate tax-writers managed to knock out some measures which the House had approved (a 10% withholding tax on dividends, a boost in long-term capital-gains taxes), and inserted others which the House had omitted. Most important Senate change: corporate taxes will be levied on undistributed earnings of farm cooperatives, mutual savings banks and building & loan associations, which are now tax free...