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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essential German goal was to knock out the R.A.F., and though the Luftwaffe was taking heavy losses, so were the defenders and their bases. Then there occurred another one of those almost accidental twists. Two German bombers on their way to attack aircraft factories at Rochester strayed over central London and dropped their bombs on the hitherto unattacked capital. Churchill promptly ordered several retaliatory raids on Berlin. Hitler, unaware of his increasing success against the R.A.F. installations, made the mistake of ordering further retaliations against London. And so, while the R.A.F. won a vital reprieve, the citizens of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Years | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...Less than half an hour later, there was a knock at the door. I cracked the door, and at that point he was opening the screen door and coming in and saying 'I have to talk to you.' It was the same man. His attitude was 'We don't want you here.' He commented that he had been shot by a black once. Then he started going into 'black trash' and so on and so forth. He let me know that if I decided to stay there, I would have to look forward to whatever happened and he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Encountering A Neighbor | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...release, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Professor Jones instructs his class to do exactly the opposite of what brings him success. In a way, what we've learned in the last four years poses straw figures for us to knock down. For most, knowing about deconstruction, 16th century Japanese history and "the iron triangle" have little relevance in our lives; teaching us how to learn is really just Harvard's euphemism for teaching us whatever the professors feel like sharing...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Unlikely Ambassadors | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Bother to Knock--Brattle Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Happening | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

...good deal for both schools and patrons. Proceeds from the dining room of little Dumas Pere culinary school in Glenview, Ill., a Chicago suburb, help underwrite tuition costs for the 14 students. "The course value is $28,000," says school director Juan Snowden. "But the dining room profit helps knock almost $20,000 off that." Mark Erickson, the director of culinary education at C.I.A., speaks for many food educators, though, when he says, "We're more interested in students' getting good training in the restaurants than in making a good profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Cooks Who Can't Be Fired | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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