Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head." Perhaps the fleetest combination of hard music and solid sentiment came during John Fogerty's appearance, his first before a paying audience since 1972. After playing two songs from his new album, and before launching into a drop-dead version of the R.-and-B. classic Knock on Wood, Fogerty simply reminded the enthusiastic audience of 78,000, "The next time you sit down to a very nice meal, remember, it didn't come from a cellophane bag from Safeway. Some guy gave his whole life to that meal you're eating...
...attacking missiles and warheads out of the sky. TRW, Lockheed and Rockwell are studying the feasibility of so-called directed energy weapons, including lasers and particle beams. Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas and Teledyne are considering how conventional rockets and other projectiles, informally known as "smart rocks," might be used to knock down ICBMs. Finally, Star Wars will require an ultrapowerful new computer system to manage the missile defense. Among the leaders in this area of research are IBM, Rockwell...
Along the Texas coast in East Galveston Bay, Hugh Brothers, 52, a Houston pharmacist, was casting for flounder in shallow water. "This swell came up from behind in the water. It didn't knock me down, but it was extraordinary. I looked around and saw there weren't any boats nearby, and I said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked...
...uncertainty and turbulence here remains neatly capped beneath the calm British exteriors. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is a well-liked schoolteacher who has a number of close friends and a lovely Yorkshire cottage. There certainly are hints of loneliness beneath the cheerfulness, but it takes Morgan's suicide to knock loose her stifled memories...
...some of Townshend's solo musical efforts. When writing and performing with The Who, Pete comes across as a team-player, a rough-and-tumble rock star who would ringlead the type of debauchery described in "Long Live Rock," in which "someone takes his pants off and the rafters knock" and a "fifty-inch cymbal falls and cuts the lamps...