Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buddy Teevens, the starting Dartmouth quarterback, had convinced a freshman to place a beer cup on his head, the idea being that Buddy would try and knock the plastic cup off by throwing a beer keg at it. It turned out that Buddy was better at throwing footballs than kegs--much better. Buddy missed and the poor freshman spent the rest of the night in the clinic, a not-uncommon consequence of the sport popularly known as William Tell...
...family portraits and decorated Christmas trees in both of his elegant offices. Nancy Reagan has shaded the private quarters in her favorite yellows and peaches, and state entertaining is a pageantry of grace and beauty. The gray squirrels come up to the windows of the Oval Office and knock when the President has not gone to Camp David for the weekend and brought back acorns to leave for them on the porch...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard will meet Columbia, the other team to knock it off a year ago, on Sunday...The Lions are experiencing a rebuilding season because of huge-losees to graduation...
...setback for El Salvador, military officials insisted that the conduct of the war would not be affected. Two hours after the crash, Armed Forces Spokesman Ricardo Aristides Cienfuegos announced replacements for the dead officers. Meanwhile, the guerrillas also kept on fighting. They ambushed a police patrol and tried to knock out a water-pumping station last week in San Salvador. That attack failed, but it was the first extended bout of warfare in the capital in recent months. A trio of rebels also gunned down a Salvadoran guard as he walked to his job at the U.S. embassy...
...both Mississippi and New Hampshire, Democrats thought they had a good chance to knock off incumbent Republican Senators in 1984. But two popular challengers are finding the going a great deal harder than they had expected...