Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experts fear that the new Soviet S59 missiles, with accurate multiple warheads, could knock out land-based U.S. ICBMs and give the Russians an advantage. Deployment of the SS-9s has been slowed, but the Nixon paper expresses concern that this may be only a pause while improvements are being made. Meanwhile, the U.S. is installing its own multiple-targeted missiles, but they are said to be too inaccurate and too small for pinpoint destruction of Soviet missile sites and are only retaliatory weapons against cities. Nixon is insisting that the U.S. must continue to protect its own sites with...
...voluntary prayers in public schools. "I believe in a wall between church and state so high," says Ervin, "that no one can climb over it." Though a strong law-and-order man, he vainly fought the Nixon Administration's District of Columbia crime bill with its controversial "no-knock" and preventive-detention provisions. He called it "a garbage pail of some of the most repressive, intolerant, unfair and vindictive legislation that the Senate has ever been presented...
They gave her The Third Day ("I played a sex pervert") and The April Fools. "That was the knock on the head. When they finally sent me the script it was The Boston Strangler Revisited. I played another cold woman. But I went around for a lot of interviews before the film was released, and I could say that I had played Jack Lemmon's wife. I made it sound like it was Sally and Jack all the way, instead of four lines...
None of which bothers Muhammad Ali one whit: "Humph! Bob Foster, a li'I ol' 188-pounder. Now ain't that something! I wouldn't even spar with a man that size. But the press and the bookies are shoutin' 'Who-e-e-e! Joe Frazah knocked him out, knocked him dead!' What they should have done is look what I did to Oscar and what Oscar did to Joe Frazier. All Oscar did was to knock Joe Frazier down twice in their first fight and then whip his face so bad that his eyes were swollen closed. And when...
...this surface and readings from their instruments, scientists concluded that the mountains had either pushed a few feet over the valley, or that the valley had thrust underneath the mountains. However they occurred, the sudden, complex movements led to a significant quake-strong enough to tumble walls and knock down highway bridges...