Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antics of his madcap fencers, there should be a lot of victories coming his way There are times, though, when you have to wonder what Vince Lombardi would have to say about the good-time philosophy that pervails among Edo's fencers. But I guess even Lombardi wouldn't knock success...
...vocabulary for what is happening around them. A building is not bombed; someone "puts the touch" to it. An army patrol becomes a "duck patrol" because the British soldiers, nervously fingering their weapons, walk the streets like sitting ducks. People who are murdered in their homes get "the midnight knock," while those killed in demonstrations are victims of "an aggro," meaning an aggravation. The conflict itself is called, with simple eloquence, "the troubles...
...rugged homestead country of Australia one evening in 1900, the wife of one of the area's white settlers answers a knock at her farmhouse door. Out of the darkness rushes the hired man, an aboriginal, flailing about with an ax. Moments later the farmer's wife, her two daughters and a schoolmistress-boarder lie hacked to death...
...poltergeist had suddenly gone on a global rampage. At higher latitudes, large glowing streaks and patches of light appeared in the nighttime sky. Short-wave radio communications were disrupted, compass needles danced dizzily back and forth, and utilities braced for stray surges of current that could knock out their power lines. Even the navigational ability of pigeons was believed to be temporarily impaired. These strange doings were not the work of an earthly ghost, but had their source in very real events occurring some 93 million miles away. With no forewarning, the sun underwent a series of violent eruptions that...
Among other things, businessmen insist, higher earnings are really needed to help finance the building of new plants and the purchase of new machines. These capital investments create business growth, which would knock down the nation's persistent and demoralizing high unemployment rate. July's jobless rate at 5.5% remained unchanged from June...