Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other corner, Shavers is psyched for 15 rounds. He says, "I trained for a 15-round fight but it won't go that long. Anything I hit will go down and when you knock them out, everybody knows who wins...
...Shavers writhed, "Knock...
What Savage didn't get used to was the lack of recognition he received. In part, it came with his position, a knock-heads spot where the chief responsibility is to be good, not fancy...
Certainly, Lance must be given every chance to knock down all charges that are being made. The man's ordeal has been severe. But for the nation, the overriding issue is not Lance's difficulties or his fitness for office but just what the affair has revealed about Jimmy Carter. Although the situations are worlds apart in both kind and importance, that familiar Nixonian question is at least remotely relevant: What did he know and when did he know it? Indeed, as various investigations continued last week, some officials who had been involved in checking Lance's record prior...
...extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale that the oily DDT residue would knock out any disease-carrying mosquito that alighted there.* The campaign succeeded so well that malaria was reduced in many countries to a minor public-health problem. Similar success was achieved under World Health Organization auspices in Asia and parts-but by no means all-of Africa...