Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same argument, of course, was often used months ago to knock down press disclosures-until they were borne out by later evidence...
...earned the admiration of most top police officials because of his strong support of wiretapping, "no knock" entry in making arrests, and preventive detention of dangerous criminals while awaiting trial, Mitchell should have exposed all those he knew to have helped plot the crime. Instead, he publicly denied any advance knowledge of the affair, ridiculed the notion that the re-election committee had anything to do with it and dismissed reports that he was personally implicated with a brusque: "The stories are getting sillier all the time...
...this novel. A ghostly past of Mel Ott, of Honus Wagner, the Folo Grounds, Kenesaw Mountain Landis -- it haunts this book. To Word Smith, it fled with America's innocence. In the bleachers at Fenway the other night, thinking of this, and badly shaken by the rendition of "Knock Three Times" that had just been piped to us at a deafening level, the kid in front of me with the baseball cap began loudly to taunt the center-fielder with the ageless imputation that he bit the dust. This convinced me that all was well -- until he worked into...
...first Nixon aim was to knock down the chances of Muskie's or Senator Edward Kennedy's becoming his opponent and to build up McGovern, who was rightly considered the easier man to beat. This tactic of interfering in the Democratic campaign was approved by Haldeman. Hunt began probing the intimate backgrounds of the potential Democratic candidates. He investigated Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick Island. Hoping to further discredit him, Hunt fabricated a State Department cable falsely stating that President John Kennedy had ordered the assassination in 1963 of South Viet Nam's President Diem. Liddy also joined the sabotage...
...climbed out of the cellar with an 8-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park yesterday. Carl Yazstrzemski socked two home runs to knock in three runs, and Tommy Harper had one homer and four RBIs...