Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ervin was profoundly conservative. He was a diehard supporter of the Viet Nam War, anti- ERA and an unswerving opponent of civil rights laws. According to Ervin's strictly states-rights' reading of the Constitution, the document ought to forbid federal civil rights intervention, as well as the no-knock search warrants and sweeping Executive privilege sought by Nixon...
...stand-up comedian building variations around a central 326-page-long joke. The media, neo-angst about World War 111, and trendy consumer society constitute one large punching bag, and the deadpanned oneliners seem endless. DeLillo has the greatest sense of the macabre since Poe, although without the ravenous-knock-your-house-down-bury-you-alive doom and gloom...
Neither side will openly admit that he who strikes first strikes best. But bot believe it. And in this context, Star war takes on critical importance. Because is the United States is ever forces preemptively to knock out the Russian nuclear force, even a half-way decen Star Wars system would go a long was towards cutting down the retaliatory damage we suffer...
Also, Harvard is the four-time defending league champion and every team gives that little bit extra to try to knock them off of their Crimson pedestal...
QUOTE: "You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one and (the last one) will go over very quickly...