Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football jocks all the way home from school. I was always running to hide in my bedroom, where I felt safe. I would actually call out, "Safe" to myself. When I was about 13, one local bully gave me nothing but grief all year long. He would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys. ed. Once he threw a cherry bomb between my legs in the school toilet. I got up before...
...answer then, but the Muse seems to have instilled something of a mental picture in my mind. There Lenny, with bunches of school children marching beside him like they did three weeks ago at the opening of the Ave. Bridge. As the mayor and troupe of little followers knock on the St. Peter's pearly gates. Lenny leaned over and, politician-style out of the corner of his mouth, asks the venerable doorkeeper a rather pointed question "So whaddya think...
...compromised the security of America's sea-based strategic missile force. U.S. military planners contend that land-based missiles and bombers are highly vulnerable to Soviet pre-emptive attack. Only the sea leg of America's nuclear triad is thought to be impervious to detection. If either side could knock out the other's subs, the balance of terror would be drastically changed...
...which at least 10,000 Argentines either were killed or disappeared as a succession of military governments fought against what they considered to be leftist subversion. Those were years of unbridled terror, of torture, abduction, rape and execution, of victims being dropped from helicopters, of the dreaded night-time knock on the door. One citizen last week recalled how he had won a colonel's admiration by surviving a five- hour torture session; another remembered seeing a presidential press secretary stretched out on a billiard table with electric wires attached to his mouth and toes. Former President Alejandro Lanusse told...
EXPECTING. Candice Bergen, 39, placidly beautiful blond film actress (Starting Over, Rich and Famous), photojournalist and best-selling autobiographer (Knock Wood); and her husband Louis Malle, 52, French film director (Atlantic City, Alamo Bay): their first child (he has two children from a previous marriage); in October...