Word: knocks
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Although many will accuse de Larrain of cynical manipulation, I have to come out on his side. It's easy to knock another man's work, to criticize his motivations and lack of real feelings. It's harder to see things from his point of view...
...North Dakota. The Fighting Sioux are the number one team in the nation now and are the top seed in the West. If the Crimson manages to beat Bowling Green this weekend, and the Sioux knock off the Larries, Harvard will face North Dakota in the NCAA semifinals...
...counting on an accelerated arms race, associated with SDI, to exhaust and ruin the economy of the U.S.S.R. This policy will not work and is extremely dangerous to international stability. In the case of SDI, an "asymmetric" response (i.e., a push to develop offensive forces and weapons to knock out an SDI system) would most efficiently frustrate such hopes. The claim that the existence of the SDI program has spurred the U.S.S.R. to disarmament negotiations is also wrong. On the contrary, the SDI program is impeding those negotiations...
Blessing's best previous work has been about families: War of the Roses (1985), a knock-down, drag-out marital combat, and Eleemosynary (1986), a dark comedy about how parents live through their children. Walk, by contrast, features provocative political notions: that deadly arsenals are essential to being a superpower ("Without nuclear weapons, America is Canada, only with more people") and that the prospect of Armageddon is titillating to much of mankind ("The most exciting thing in the world is to know we can destroy the world. Like that...
...might face RPI in the playoffs so we have to stick it to them now," Chiarelli continued. "Any road trip is tough, but we had a good week of practice. We're up for it--it's our last road trip before Detroit, knock on wood...