Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist Johnson, a professional funnyman, has also interviewed mind-readers to get a line on prospective Academy Award winners (it was a wobbly line), examined Greer Carson's knees after an Eastern stocking designer called her knock-kneed (no knock), inspected the redecorated ladies' room at Romanoff's restaurant (Hedy Lamarr was surprised to meet him there) and played bit parts in six movies. For his brash, brisk reporting about these unlikely activities and more consequential news of Hollywood, 39-yearold Erskine Johnson has become one of Hollywood's most widely read male columnists, earns about...
Adams won the inter-House boxing championship at the Blockhouse last nigh, but for most of the 800 spectators, the big match was Puritan Phil Isenberg's technical knock out of Marcel Rocca...
Having, pared down the problem, the Brookings researchers proceeded to knock down the Ewing solution. Compulsory insurance, they argued, would mean too much governmental regulation and control, which would creep into the relationship between doctor and patient. Furthermore, politics could not be kept out. Worst of all, "the cost of medical care presumably would increase because of a) administrative expenses; b) the tendency of insured persons to make unnecessary and often unreasonable demands upon the medical care services; and c) the tendency of some practitioners and agencies to use the system for their own financial advantage...
...light blows ... is lawful for the purpose of exercise and recreation . . But it is difficult to reconcile prizefighting, as we have it today, with Catholic principles of morality. For, undoubtedly, the purpose of the fighters is to deal each other severe blows, and if possible to score a 'knock-out.' That grave injuries frequently come to those who follow prizefighting as a career is well known from experience...
...tour of 30-odd U.S. and Canadian cities, anyone with $2 and sufficient brass could have a go at him. In a really busy session, Sammy estimates that he trots 15 to 20 miles to make an average of 20 to 60 moves on each board. He likes to knock off 40 at a time, although recently at Germantown, Pa. he faced 75 in one evening...