Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians, claims Haldeman, were considering a "surgical" nuclear strike against the Chinese, designed to knock out new nuclear plants. But U.S. officials feared, among other things, that the Russians had only crude bombs with a radioactive fallout that might kill "every man, woman and child in Japan" and spread death "across Korea and Pacific islands where more than 250,000 American troops were stationed...
...while serving as a Marine radar controller at Atsugi, Japan, in 1957, and that he provided information to the Soviets either then or upon his defection to Russia in 1959. Oswald's information, the book suggests, enabled the Soviets to redesign their rocket-guidance systems so as to knock CIA Pilot Gary Powers out of the air over the Soviet Union...
...really have much of a chance to win the tournament," he continued, "but we are going to knock off some people who expect to walk through...
...boxing world has new life. Some said it could never be done. They said the champion would never lose his crown on a decision. They said you had to knock out the champ to take the title. But Leon Spinks proved all the skeptics wrong...
However, most of the disappointment was over the delay itself. Harvard goaltender John Hynes, who played brilliantly against Northeastern in the overtime win a week ago, said "We were all so anxious to play B.U. tomorrow night because we wanted to be the team to knock them off their unbeaten streak. I'm sure that they're not going to be undefeated anymore when March 1 rolls around...