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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to knock a 17-4-1 season. Only one other team, Cornell, managed a better record than that. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division I produced a lot of tough competition this year, and counting B.U.'s forfeits, only three teams finished with five or fewer losses...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...went the Ivy League, the top spot in the East and a ranking among the top five in the country. But even then you couldn't really knock the team. The Crimson came on strong at the finish, taking its last four while outscoring its opponents 30-6. Harvard grabbed the number two seed in the ECAC tourney, which didn't seem too bad as the predicted outcome had the top four seeds winning the quarterfinals, leaving Harvard to play B.C. in the semis, while Cornell and B.U. slugged it out for the right to play the Crimson...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...really hard to knock a team that has compiled such an impressive record. One could only wish that the Crimson icemen had saved some of the hustle, desire and spark that led them to a 4-4 'victory' against Dukla Jihlava, for Cornell, B.U. and Clarkson...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...early fifties, the avant-garde knew Jackson Pollock as a man who might come into his favorite East Hampton bar late one night, have a few drinks, and knock his fellow painter Franz Kline across the room. Folks at home knew him, thanks to Henry Luce's magazines, as "Jack the Dripper," the angry-looking young man who put canvas on the floor, slopped a little Duco paint around, added some sand and miscellaneous junk, and called the mess a painting. He seemed as full of chaos as his paintings. He smoked Camels, drank hard, then finally lost control...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Painters Talking | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...said that recruiting within the bounds of Harvard Department of Athletics policy "is like waiting for Raquel Welch to knock on your front door." The policy forbids coaches from approaching athletes until the athletes notify the Admissions Office of their interest in Harvard...

Author: By Richard H. P. sia, | Title: Sia at the Game | 2/28/1973 | See Source »

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