Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touch with any Cuban leaders or could have been part of a retaliatory attack on Kennedy for the U.S. efforts to kill Castro. The significance of the Kennedy connection to anti-Castro plots is not that it strengthens the many Oswald conspiracy theories, but that it tends to knock down the notion that the CIA was operating wildly beyond presidential control in scheming against foreign leaders...
...tank slowed down--stalled to a standstill--and we were on our way, for at least a couple of hundred miles. Our driver was a squat, hairy toothless Canadian freak. He laughed like a leprechaun--in great volumes of uncontagious cackles--and he cursed his car at every knock. He wouldn't put it over 50 mph and the hard-iron hills of Nevada clanked by slowly. Huge white letters were carved into the hills--the only signs to tell one town from another as they filtered...
...estimated at $500,000 five years ago, really can't be installed until the Fogg gets its addition, which Slive says will cost at least $7,000,000. And so he sits in his office, surrounded by a selection of the Fogg's surplus holdings, waiting for the knock of some donor who will liberate them...
...killed in an accident, she herself had been in an automobile accident, and she hadn't even gone to school yet. She was a mess. I think we managed to salvage one boy. He was 85 pounds and not yet six. He would just tear around the place and knock people over, but he was a fundamentally honest person. He was starting to come around...
Richard Nixon swept into office on a platform of "law-and-order," capitalizing on the public's legitimate fears of crime. His emphasis, unfortunately, was always more on order than law, and such innovations as no-knock warrants became a real danger to any traditional idea of justice. But in a speech recently at the Yale Law School, President Ford said that he was shunning the law-and-order catch phrase for the war on crime and substituting instead a lofty, ringing theme for his Administration: to "insure domestic tranquility...