Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday that saw a full Ivy league football schedule awesome first hall offense was the tune as Dartmouth danced into first place, and upstart Pennsylvania scored its second straight upset, to knock Yale...
...also doubtful about how well Robinson would fare against big-league pitching. Before one exhibition game, former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Paul Derringer volunteered to help Hopper, an old friend, find out. "Tell you what I'm going to do, Clay," Derringer said. "I'm going to knock him down a couple of times and see what makes him tick." The first time up, Robinson had to fall down to avoid a Derringer fast ball. Then Robinson got up and hit a single. Next time up Robinson again had to hit the dirt. Then he leaped...
...game was played in a steady rain, and the wet conditions hampered the backs and caused many "knock-ons" because the ball was hard to hold. Knockons, which are accidental forward fumbles, resulted in a high number of scrums Saturday. Scrums determine possession of the ball...
...mayors or Governors have spent enough to head off imminent problems posed by outmoded mass transit and increasing pollution. Says Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I have yet to see a long-range state-local expenditure projection that did not underestimate spending requirements. Knock on any door marked MAYOR or GOVERNOR and you'll find a long line of pressing needs waiting to be dealt with...
...send their drivers to briefings and guided tours of the 54-mile waterway project. "They can be the greatest goodwill, or bad-will, ambassadors," explains the mayor. It remains to be demonstrated whether the indoctrinations will succeed in altering the seemingly irrepressible urge of a taxi driver to knock rather than boost...