Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics are unimpressed. "Kitsch," some of them proclaim. The works, says Los Angeles Sculptor Richard Oginz, "strike a Norman Rockwell note." Indeed, Johnson is not about to knock Rodin off his pedestal, but his garden-variety American archetypes are a welcome-and welcoming-relief from "plunk art": find a plaza, acquire something made of huge welded beams, then plunk it down...
Another unit of 225 Rangers under Lieut. Colonel James Rudder was dispatched to Pointe du Hoc, a 100-foot-high promontory four miles west of Omaha and ten miles east of Utah. Their assignment: to knock out six heavily defended German 155-mm guns that could command both beaches. They fired rocket-propelled grappling hooks up to the top of the cliff and then began the fearful climb up ropes and ladders. The Germans splattered the oncoming Rangers with machine-gun fire, grenades, even boulders, and they managed to cut several of the ropes on which the Rangers were inching...
...should be launched unless a comprehensive arms-control program that places sharp limits on offensive weapons is established first. That way, strategic defense might conceivably serve as a useful backup to traditional deterrence, an extra insurance against war breaking out by accident (a space-based American death ray might knock out an errant Soviet missile, for instance, without necessarily touching off a full-scale Soviet attack) or against war being started by a reckless newcomer to the nuclear-weapons club...
There are many caretakers at Harvard and Radcliffe. On the front lines are proctors and advisors in the Yard and tutors in the Houses When I was a resident tutor in Duster House, innumerable students would knock on my door, usually late in the evening, and want to talk Problems of loneliness far outweighed concern about studies. When I was a section man in a Humanities course, two students individually came to me and said that they liked one another but were too shy to ask each other out I got them two tickets next to each other...
NONFICTION: D.W. Griffith, Richard Schickel ∙ The Knight, the Lady and the Priest, Georges Duby ∙ Knock Wood, Candice Bergen ∙ The March of Folly, Barbara W. Tuchman "Son," Jack Olsen ∙ Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank