Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used indirectly to guide missiles to enemy planes, and to destroy invaders with their searing rays. Lasers may also be employed to protect aircraft. U.S. Air Force researchers, who have already equipped one Boeing NKC-135 as a test plane, are working on aircraft-carried lasers that could knock out ground-based antiaircraft installations by blinding gun crews...
...living. "They're treated just like everyone else," said one electrician. "I walk down the halls in my shorts. If they don't like it, too bad. Most of us are family men. If one guy starts giving a woman a hard time, there are twelve others ready to knock him down. We sort of watch out for them...
...National Security Council staff when he became President, she was always available. Kennedy's nonchalant attitude toward such encounters-as well as his agility in keeping his outside pursuits from interfering with his official duties-was shown one summer afternoon when the two were interrupted by a knock on the Lincoln Bedroom door. Angered, Kennedy threw the door wide open. There stood two top foreign affairs advisers with a batch of secret cables-and a clear view of the woman in bed. Never bothering to close the door, Kennedy cooled down, read the dispatches, and made his decisions before...
...knock your block off." Only slightly less menacing is Archer, a pass rusher who "mauls" offensive linemen...
...start with the head butt, driving their helmets into the heads of the opposite offensive linemen like bull moose battling for their lives. Once the offensive lineman has been hit, each man has a specialty. Greenwood likes to use the "slip" move, pushing past his blocker. White prefers to knock his opponent aside with an "uppercut" shove under the shoulder. Holmes is a master of the "club," using one of his blacksmith forearms to belt a blocker to the side, and the "push and pull," in which he pushes a guard off balance and then pulls him aside. Greene...