Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three blazer-clad sons of George Bush were everywhere, dispensing charm to win last-minute conversions. "Consider my dad. He's going to knock 'em dead," said Neil, 24, pumping delegates' arms...
...real horror story has been at the Globe," Bill Baumgardener, business manager of the Boston Herald-American, said yesterday. "We've been pretty lucky, knock on wood," he added...
...mixed the tender and the funereal into a weltschmertz as heady as any German musician has ever brewed. These are songs that use familiar sounds--the sagging languor of a torch-song, the steady intensity of an army march--to put the listener off-guard and then knock him flat with cynical or black-humorous lyrics. "Marathon" goes on a careless, accelerating dance through the 20th century, nostalgically stopping at favorite decades, until the abrupt, eschatological ending puts a stop to the singing, the dancing and the music. "Carousel" sets lyrics of childish innocence about carnivals, and ferris wheels...
...Harvard created opportunities, and onlookers could only wonder what might have been with the Crimson at full strength. With 20 minutes left in the first half. Dave Eaton volleyed toward the goal an Alberto Villar crosspass only to watch B.U. keeper Howie Friedman make a fine reflex save to knock the ball over...
Firemen, fearing that the church's gutted steeple would collapse, cordoned off the area before a crane could knock the steeple down safely...