Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very satisfying win for Crimson coach Pappy Hunt. "Andover had boasted that they could knock us off," he said yesterday. "But we ran a real tough race to beat them. I've definitely got a bunch of competitors this year...
MUCH of the humor in Michael Bronsk's Man for Man derives from jokes that would seem dated on the most ordinary television situation comedy. Most jokes are on the order of a character's exclamation at a policeman's inopportune knock: "Don't just stand there... panic!" Many of these jokes seem dated in Man for Man as well as on television. But other do not, largely because the plot of Man for Man is a bit less bland than most situation comedies: at the end of the play, for example, four out of the eight male characters...
Workmen will meticulously knock out each of the building's 55-square-foot windows, as the entire pane cannot be removed in one piece. The total cost for installing the first set of windows was $6.9 million...
...stark fact that in choosing to skyjack the Iraqi Airways flight in hopes of bagging Dr. George Habash, a high-ranking leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Israel in effect had decided that ends justify means. There is a growing urge in Jerusalem to knock out the terrorists once...
...knock myself loose for Mr. Nixon in 1959 and 1960," he wrote, "and cast my lot with him through the long, arid comeback years of 1965 through 1968 to have him-or some lizard-lidded paranoid acting in his name without his approval-eavesdropping on my conversations...