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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Are in a Heap of Trouble | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Full of It | 10/22/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: PBS to Televise Princeton-Harvard Duel | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Women Booters Stymied; Battle Green to 0-0 Tie | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

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