Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand in favor of the no-knock provision of the D. C. crime bill has angered many liberals who otherwise would have supported him gladly. The provision permits police, under certain circumstances, to enter a building without first announcing their presence or occupation...
...frequency of reports concerning the snooping activities of various branches of government has lent credence to fears of a growing repressive apparatus. The disclosure that Internal Revenue Service agents have been checking cards in various libraries and the passage of the D. C. Crime Bill with its controversial no-knock and wiretapping provisions are only the most recent examples of such potentially-repressive activities...
...that was periodically invaded by Oswald Mosley's fascist bullyboys. Pinter remembers that as an adolescent, he had to run a gauntlet of broken milk bottles thrust menacingly at him. Not surprisingly, the boy's imagination was permeated by the Nazi massacre of the Jews. The threatened knock at the door, with the certainty of horrible punishment for an uncommitted crime, was a sound of terror in his mind before he ever recorded it on the stage...
...reserves on the bench, the coaches on the sidelines, and the JV's, freshman and fans in the stands. If Harvard had failed to make the NCAA's last year, some people could have placed some of the blame on the CRIMSON sports coverage. "Now don't let me knock your coverage," Charlie Thomas, one of the Crimson forwards, told me Wednesday night as we talked in his Mather House suite, "but sometimes you covered certain players too much. There were even a couple of times when some of the players were playing for the CRIMSON instead of the team...
...style sometimes is enough to make one want to quit. The first sentence under the heading "Nibbling, Nipping, Eatting, Licking and Sucking" (about half of the chapter is, "Now don't turn up your nose and make that ugly face!" The whole chapter has the attitude of "Don't knock it until you've tried it," which is fine. But some of the reasons for doing these techniques are not exactly ones you would think of on your own: one of the advantages of learning to move your lips in rhythm with pelvic thrusts is that it is "most helpful...