Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to knock guys stone cold, as dead as Hector -- one punch," he reminisced. "I traveled all over the place to get fights. They would put me on last of all, and the people would be screaming when I came in." In 1982 he knocked a Nigerian named Alimi Mustafa dead as Hector. "I cry now whenever I think of that wee man, and sometimes when I swing on someone, there he is in front of me. His wife was pregnant, as mine was. Well he never knew it, but he had a son. I don't know...
...Harvard men's fencing team, the 1986-'87 season has a familiar ring to it. Knock off perennial powerhouses Penn and Columbia, and the Ivy title--which has eluded the fencers since 1976--is the Crimson's for the taking...
American companies often take legal action to keep imported knock-offs of their products out of the U.S. But Lever Bros., the second largest American soapmaker, sued the Customs Service last week to block U.S. sales of goods produced by its sister company, London-based Lever Bros. Ltd. (Both are subsidiaries of Unilever, a British-Dutch consortium.) In 1983 the American Lever Bros. was enjoying splashy sales of its Shield deodorant soap and Sunlight dishwashing detergent when products with the same names began appearing at discount prices. Manufactured by the British Lever Bros., the soaps had been shipped...
...network of 9,720 car dealers, many of whom have been clamoring for stronger GM brand identities. Observes Joseph Cappy, president of rival American Motors: "That Chevrolet dealer network is so strong they can sell anything. You give them a good product, and they'll just knock the doors...
Last year the spikers knocked on the Ivy championship door. This year they kicked it. Next year they will try to knock it down...