Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie taught the kids to be little song-and-dance men, true troupers in the old vaudeville style. They would perform in shows at temples and hospitals around the city, where Elliott would knock 'em dead with a "Mary Had a Little Lamb" routine that Charlie taught him. "Mary had a little lamb, some peas and mashed potatoes/An ear of corn, some buttered beets and then had sliced tomatoes," and so on for a total of eight teeth-gnashing verses...
...canal, giving the Egyptians and their Soviet advisers theoretical control of the air over some Israeli-held territory. Without air cover, the Bar-Lev Line along the east bank of the Suez is vulnerable to amphibious attack from the Egyptian side. The Israelis still believe that they could knock out an Egyptian offensive, but they reckon on far higher casualties than before in doing...
...responded to the condition and the mood by passing the tough and controversial D.C. crime bill. The 54-33 vote was carried by a coalition that cut across party and traditional philosophical lines to come down for a measure that provides for broadened wiretap powers, preventive detention and "no-knock" entry when police officers feel that revealing their identity might result in destruction of evidence or endanger their lives...
...potential challengers for the post of minority leader, Robert Griffin and Howard Baker. The Administration kept up the pressure: Justice Department official Donald Santarelli was a constant visitor to the Hill; Attorney General John Mitchell appeared early in the week to sanitize the language of the debate, changing "No-Knock" to the presumably less odious "Quick Entry...
...1960s, there were few major U.S. department stores that did not depend for inspiration and line-for-line copies upon Paris haute couture. The knock-off Chanel suits and ersatz Givenchys were prized along with $1,000 originals and snapped up even faster. But the sudden flurry of boutiques, many of them stocked with French ready-to-wear as well as with newly inventive American-made designs, has put high style within easy access and a sensible price range. The youth rebellion crashed the old-guard fashion stockades by putting it all together (often out of trunks and thrift-shop...