Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Columbia is unusually strong this season, and Amherst, while not particularly tough, could prove to be difficult Wednesday. "Every team including Amherst will try to be the first to knock us off, since we did so well in the NCAA's last year," Munro said...
...just marketed the Stun Gun, which shoots a compressed four-inch-square nylon bag filled with either lead powder or birdshot. Fired from modified carbines, pistols or even nightsticks, the bag unfolds like a spinning pancake when it leaves the weapon's muzzle at 110 m.p.h. It will knock down-or at least stun -a fleeing suspect or a rioter. But, claims the manufacturer, the impact is not fatal. A Chicago police official disagrees: "Anything is lethal if it's fired at close enough range. Who are they trying...
...appellate court of perception. A woman enters a Manhattan cafeteria and sees Hitler. Later, after her death, she herself is seen, strolling Broadway. A mischievous editor sends an obscure philosopher love letters from a mythical heiress-and the joke blossoms into a great tragedy. A chimney sweep is knocked on the head and becomes uncomfortably omniscient; another knock and he is back to imbecility...
...Gregory nor his partner, Chuck Graves, 42, knew what they were hauling. "Guess we could look, but we usually don't," said Gregory. He complained of a headwind that could add ten hours to the 59 allotted by his company for the Los Angeles run. "It'll knock you down a whole gear," he said. "You get damn tired of pushing all the way to L.A. in ninth...
...seemed then that he was always doing bits, was always "on." Friends recall that he would go into a diner, sit next to a little old lady and calmly make a meal out of his paper napkin ?complete with salt, pepper and ketchup. He also liked to knock on strangers' doors and inquire politely, "Is this the party?" Or walk into one door of a Checker cab stopped in traffic and out the other (apologizing to the passenger), or call up relatives and confound them with some uncanny voice impersonation of the rabbi or the neighborhood butcher...