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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their freedom, but stayed up talking all night, savoring the experience. As one doctor prepared for an examination of Navy Lieut. Commander Paul Galanti, a prisoner for 6½ years, the patient dropped to the floor, did 50 push ups, then walked around the room on his hands. "Knock it off, Paul," the doctor laughed. "I get your point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS: An Emotional, Exuberant Welcome Home | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...Quakers and the Crimson will probably knock each other out of contention on the 220 tartan oval, while Navy builds an insurmountable lead in the field events and watches the others fight over the more closely contested running contests...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Middies Are Favored in Heps Today, Harvard and Penn Are Chief Threats | 2/24/1973 | See Source »

...area, Hussein would be agreeable to a plebiscite of its Arab population. He thereby appeared ready to cede a chunk of his kingdom and a quarter of his population in return for peace and Arab economic support. But he had hardly begun his Washington rounds when Israel seemed to knock down his offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Getting Almost All Points of View | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...time importers, who are white, and bringing in their own heroin, cocaine and other drugs from Latin America or Southeast Asia. In Boston, police estimate that street sales of heroin, mainly by blacks to blacks, totaled $65 million last year. Factory owners, who buy in bulk, may knock down as much as $26,000 a week. Their distributors can earn $3,800, and the lowly pusher, often an addict, gets about $ 125 and all the smack he can shoot-about $900 worth a week at current prices. Before he was jailed, one young black hustler, beginning from scratch five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Irregular Economy | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Ironically, it was Dartmouth who kept Harvard in the Ivy race, by beating Cornell last week, but they could easily knock them out of it tonight. Cornell, seeking an unprecedented eighth straight Ivy crown, handed Harvard its only league loss earlier in the season. The Crimson needs to go into the Cornell game with a win against the Big Green, or the most they could reasonably expect is a share of the title...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson, Green Face Key Contests | 2/14/1973 | See Source »

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