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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gambril. Like most of the team, is thinking more of Dartmough and a chance to knock off the top team in the league, than today's unimportant meet with Army. The Canary trip, and the training it will afford, may put the Crimson in a more favorable position for January than it has ever enjoyed...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Swimmers Face Army Today | 12/16/1972 | See Source »

This year CCNY has had only one match, which they won, topping Yale, 14-13, Yale is usually not much of a fencing power, although the Elis did knock Harvard out of sole possession of second place in the last match of last season...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Harvard Fencers Meet CCNY Today In First Strong Challenge to Crimson | 12/9/1972 | See Source »

Both Gallos live quietly in houses on the Modesto vineyard. They arrive at the office at precisely 8 a.m., spend the day in frequent communication with each other, and knock off at 7 p.m. When the Gallos entertain, usually for visiting company executives, they serve only their own wines-a white, a pink, a red and a champagne. Says Ernest: "Only when Mrs. Gallo and I are at home alone, which is not very frequently, will I drink my competitors' wines in order to follow their progress." Ernest and Julio are both at the age when many men retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: American Wine Comes of Age | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Yale's Conrad Marchaj took advantage of Harvard defensive errors to knock in three goals in leading the Elis to a 3-2 win Wednesday. Yale ended the season with an unblemished 10-0 record, the first undefeated freshman soccer squad in Eli history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Booters Top Frosh, 3-2; Post First Unbeaten Season | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

...emphasis throughout had to be placed on the ridiculous rather than the human, then I was faced not only with a lack of subtlety, but also with the absence of some essentially grotesque props. Not to knock De Ann Mears's lusty portrayal of Big Nurse, for instance, but where, oh where was her frequently discussed and out-sized bosom...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 11/21/1972 | See Source »

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