Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pour: "Hop-Frog," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Raven" and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allen Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors...
...bankruptcy and reorganization. The company would then become the first U.S. utility to succumb financially to the nuclear-plant cost overruns and environmental battles that have plagued dozens of plants across the country. Even the $2.25 billion default of the Washington Public Power Supply System in 1983 failed to knock out any utilities, largely because WPPSS was a consortium in which the financial burden was shared by 16 companies. But the weight of Seabrook falls hard on Public Service, which owns 35.6% of the plant and is prohibited under New Hampshire law from charging customers for the inoperative plant...
MANY OF America's richest men began as self-important obnoxious bastards, so I would never knock the lifestyle. All I'm saying is that there are too many self-absorbed people in my classes...
League-leading Brown (3-1) has an even easier road to the title. All the Bruins need do is knock off Harvard (2-1) two weeks from now. With this accomplished, the Bruins can roll over Dartmouth and Columbia in the season's final weeks...
Last year, Dartmouth defeated a heavily favored Harvard women's soccer team, 3-1, in Hanover, N.H., to knock the Crimson out of the Ivy League race...