Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeed; the hope is, as A. Alvarez allows it, that the suicide succeeded far better than she planned. She turned on the gas at an hour titillatingly close to the time at which she knew the Australian babysitter was to arrive. She knew that the babysitter would knock at her door, get no response, that she would knock on the door of the apartment below and that the tenant below would come to her aid. What Sylvia did not count on was that the neighbor's bedroom was directly below her kitchen and that the fumes would descend into...
...Postponing a Raise. Congress would nonetheless be well advised to knock out some of the accelerated depreciation and give more tax relief to individuals, preferably by postponing part of an increase in Social Security taxes proposed to take effect Jan. 1. Congress is now considering a bill to boost the total paid by people earning $10,200 or more a year from $406 to $551, wiping out for many families all the personal tax breaks requested by Nixon. Postponing some of this increase, rather than legislating further permanent tax cuts, would serve a double purpose. It would put more spending...
...Last week we lost to Holy Cross in overtime, 4-3," said M.I.T. coach Bill Morrison. "We realize who we're playing. I won't say we're gonna knock the shit out of 'em, cause we're not. I guess you could say that we are ready," chuckled Morrison...
...fight was actually precipitated two weeks ago, when Israeli gunners shot down an Egyptian Sukhoi 7 reconnaissance plane because, they said, it had flown over Israel's fortified Bar-Lev Line on the canal's east bank. Egypt retaliated by sending SAM missiles aloft to knock down an aging SA-2 transport, which Israel said was flying several miles away from the canal. Seven men were killed when the Stratocruiser crashed in the Sinai desert, 15 miles from the waterway. Israeli Phantoms avenged them by raking Egyptian positions near the west bank with rockets. The Egyptians fired back...
Over the next two hours, the shortwave Sherlock continued to monitor and tape what he heard. The thieves in the vault were apparently worried that the fumes from their heavy-duty cutting torches would alert security guards, and they wanted to knock off for the night. Said one of the gang: "Look, the place is filled with fumes where we was cutting. And if the security come in and smell the fumes, we are all going to take stoppo and none of us have got nothing. Whereas this way we have all got 300 grand to cut up when...