Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were nailed down to reality we wouldn't have started it. Last year when we started talking about it. I called my parents so that they could knock common sense into me. and they sort of went beserk and said. "It's great! Keep on with...
Many of the open-end-type subpoenas issued on the press have sought information about the Panthers or the white radical Weathermen. The U.S. attorneys who obtained them are well aware of Mitchell's hard line on both dissident groups; they also know he favors "no-knock" authority for police investigating some cases. Thus, these attorneys may have thought they were carrying out Mitchell's desires, if not his orders. But an aide stressed that Mitchell had not promoted the trend. "Some eager beavers were off on a hunting trip," he offered, "and we're going...
...emblems of the irrational at the core of man-not Jean Genet's black white Negroes, not Samuel Beckett's ashcans, not even Jerzy Grotowski's Holy Auschwitz-are quicker or more deadly than Eugene lonesco's best: when he bothers to aim, he can knock the cigarette from one's lips at 40 paces. As Death and the nun came together onstage in Dusseldorf in the world premiere of lonesco's The Triumph of Death, applause spattered through the theater...
Extraordinary Times. The most controversial provision would authorize federal agents to conduct "no-knock" raids on suspected drug caches. As originally drafted, the section would have permitted authorities to break into a home without warning or identification if they believed that a more polite entry might allow suspects to destroy evidence. Facing opposition to the entire section, Senator Robert Griffin won its inclusion by altering its language but not its impact. The new wording requires that agents applying to a court for "no-knock" authorization must convince a judge that the drugs will definitely be destroyed. Still, the provision raises...
...give us all that detail for free," the jurist told high-priced Writer Norman Mailer. The amateur boxer and ring buff later summed up Hoffman as a verbal sparring partner: "A fast-moving featherweight who never gets his left out of your face. But he'd never knock anybody...