Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diego women were looking for someone to kill their husbands, police heard. Masquerading as a hit man, a detective claims, he got an offer of $10,000 from Judith Lynette East, 45, to knock off her Mark, 31, and one of $5,000 from Venise Lynette Morris, 27, to rub out her Michael, 41. The two women had more than a murder plot in common: Judith East is the mother of Venise Morris...
...teammate Banks arrived on schedule, completely pleased with himself. "To keep me from the gold," he proclaimed in the fighters' doggerel, "they'll have to knock me cold." They did, in the first round. Even so, finding a softer voice while glancing at Hembrick, Banks said, "I'd rather be carried out of the ring than never to have gone into it." When the Korean Byun lost to a Bulgarian by bitter decision, Byun wouldn't leave. All the black bow-tied referees in white had to pile through the ropes to rescue their brother from local officials and fans...
...retirement earlier this year by foes of apartheid. Slaney recently has been on antibiotics for an unspecified illness, but her once fierce confidence has returned, this time tempered with the realization that dreams are oh so fragile. "Cross my fingers," she has been saying often these pre-Olympic days. "Knock on wood...
...instead of the knock-down, face-in-the-mud battles Crimson fans may be used to, Harvard will try to speed up the games by getting the ball out to its deep cast of returning backs...
...some judges be elected or confirmed at the polls, the courts are often a major target of voter grievances. This year the nation's most impassioned political campaign may be one aimed at a judge. Opponents of Rose Bird, California's first woman chief justice, are working hard to knock her off that judicial perch. It looks very much as if they will succeed in making her the first member of that court to be rejected under the 50-year-old confirmation...