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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then this year, in the third race of the season, Princeton hung a one-second loss on the 'Cliffe down at Princeton, to knock the 'Cliffe out of the unbeaten ranks and insure the season's only perfect record in Eastern rowing...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: 'Cliffe to Vie for Sprint Title Sunday | 5/11/1973 | See Source »

...corporate office. Across the bay, in East Oakland, two other Jesuits are immersed in work among the city's many minorities: the old, the poor, the black, the brown. They may be out on the streets by 7 a.m., checking to see that a wrecker has shown up to knock down an unsafe building, or be battling until 3 in the morning at a neighborhood meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Being a big gun on the baseball circuit has its problems as well as its obvious rewards. Harvard has done very well in Eastern baseball for quite a few years now, so everyone in the East is anxious to knock the Crimson off in any and all meetings...

Author: By Bruns H. Grayson, | Title: Crimson Nine Favored to Win Today Against Experienced Bulldog Batsmen | 4/20/1973 | See Source »

...multinational corporations against expropriation. ITT now stands to lose whatever compensation Allende had promised to pay; and unless the company can disprove the mounting evidence that its loss resulted from its attempt to interfere in Chilean politics, it may also lose its $92.5 million claim with the OPIC. To knock down that evidence will be Harold Geneen's task in testimony this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Worse Things Get, the Better | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...called him 'Magoo' because he looked like the cartoon character, all squinty-was vicious. He used to come in the cell about twice a week and beat John Brodak and me. Sometimes he'd beat us for no cause, just open the door, come in and knock us around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Beyond the Worst Suspicions | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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