Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve o'clock: if you don't have to knock off early for lunch, try Aiken's Philosophy 167--Contemporary Ethics--in Emerson F. Definitely not a course for dilettantes, this one takes up several modern philosophers and requires solid grounding in both Philosophy and Psychology...
...Farmer Robert died last week. Both were good farmers. Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler. Once, say the Carolina neighbors, the brothers were repairing the roof of their house when they had a quarrel. Chang seized a hammer and threatened to clout Eng with it and knock him to the ground...
...after that, quiet cooperation would stop abruptly. The Republican minority was stronger than ever, and flushed with election victory. One of the results of victory was that Senator Joe McCarthy, whose Red charges had helped to knock off a number of Democratic candidates in November, was likely to have more influence in the 82nd Congress than he had had in the 81st. On domestic matters, a conservative coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans would dominate the show. Such Truman dreamboats as the Brannan Plan, the Ewing Plan, the civil rights bill, would not be launched. On foreign policy, the 82nd...
...Changjin area, Smith had two regiments at Yudam, west of the reservoir, and a third strung out along the road from Hagaru to the south. The Chinese hit the two regiments at Yudam with no less than three divisions, but wilted under counterattack. They next failed to knock out the headquarters garrison at Hagaru, which would have prevented the division from assembling at that point. Finally, they failed to overrun the garrison at Koto, a move which would have blocked the marines' road...
With a glittering chance to knock off the nation's No. 1 and 2 teams on consecutive nights, St. Louis threw away its slowdown stuff, switched to a racehorse game, and ran Bradley ragged for the first three quarters. But Bradley stayed close to the pace, caught tired St. Louis, 52-52, with seven minutes to play. Bradley wrapped up the game, the Sugar Bowl title, and top national ranking...