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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school." O'Toole says it is important that the faculty, in turn, be easily accessible to the students. "What Northeastern does for a student is incredible," he says. "In my day at Harvard Law School, a student had to have something pretty serious in mind to knock on a professor's door. Law school was the type of experience evoked by The Paper Chase. I imagine things have loosened up a little since I went there, but here things are really different. For instance, in my Torts class, I put up a list of people who've had trouble with...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: They Do Things Differently at Northeastern Law School | 5/29/1974 | See Source »

...replied that it was up to him to shoot down the plane by whatever means he could. Malinovsky said he'd already given the order, adding "If our antiaircraft units can just keep their eyes open and stop yawning long enough, I'm sure we'll knock the plane down." He was referring to the fact that already in April we'd had an opportunity to shoot down a U-2 but our antiaircraft batteries were caught napping and didn't open fire soon enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The U-2 Affair: A Foot in A Quagmire | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...What do you mean, all these dummies? Don't knock a man who's paying somebody else's way through college.' Sometimes when I make something, I put a little dent in it. I like to do something to make it really unique. Hit it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voices of Silence | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...Mitchell went in, that might knock that whole week into a cocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Summoning Ziegler to join the conversation, the President resumes his musings over what sort of public statement he could issue that would "knock true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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