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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were made at lunch in several houses, and sign-up lists were posted in entryways throughout the driveways. "Many elderly people cannot get outside their houses and many of those do not have telephones to call for help," Stern said. She added, students who wish to volunteer should just knock on houses where the snow has not been shovelled and offer assistance...

Author: By De WITT C. jones, | Title: Students Volunteer Blood and Sweat | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...anti-inflation program focusing on what sounds like the mildest kind of presidential jawboning. The White House will attempt to knock half a percentage point off the inflation rate (6.5% to 6.8% in 1977, by various measurements) by urging union leaders and corporate executives to hold wage and price boosts below the average for the past two years. To that end, Administration officials will try to convene informal panels of labor and corporate bosses to work out wage-price goals for specific industries, bearing in mind that some will need bigger increases than others. Said Carter firmly, and to much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trying to Build Confidence | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...prophet . . . He saw, to the point of exact detail, the horror gathering. The Trial exhibits the classic model of the terror state. It prefigures the furtive sadism, the hysteria which totalitarianism insinuates into private and sexual life, the faceless boredom of the killers. Since Kafka wrote, the night knock has come on innumerable doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius of the Blackest Impulses | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...fourth spot, John Stubbs won a knock-down drag-out affair when he took the deciding fifth game of his match 15-13 for a 3-2 victory. From then on, Harvard won 15 of 16 games as Clancy Nixon, Clark Bain, chuck Elliot and Jeff Secrest each shutout their opponents 3-0. Mitch Reese won his match in the sixth position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Sweep Weekend Matches | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...currently doing. Wayne, Stewart and Fonda, last survivors of the generation of giants, have become old men despite our most imaginative efforts not to acknowledge that dismaying fact. Brando broods and thickens in the middle on his South Seas Elba, a character actor in search of characters he can knock off in a month's shooting time. Newman is good wine, aging nicely but often bottled strangely, so that it is hard to identify his essence. Redford is adorable, but when they enriched that handsome hunk of white bread, they somehow left out the mythic minerals. Nicholson is a wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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