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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been especially difficult for Code to lead in a season which has invited much comparison to last year, but he says he tries to follow "the Cleary philosophy. If we lose and play a good game, I just say, 'next time we'll have to knock...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: The One Nobody Wanted | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...same time, the report asks the Salvadoran government to invite the rebel organizations to participate in the upcoming March elections and details plan to guarantee the fairness of the elections and the safety of all the participants. The preparation of the Salvadoran Army for the knock-down blow of the guerrillas is sure to keep the rebels away from the voting booths and the negotiating table. A far wiser course would be to delay increased military aid for El-Salvador and hope for signs of willingness to negotiate on the part of the insurgents. This would give the rebels time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still the Wrong Prescription | 1/20/1984 | See Source »

...ideas into seductive images. He can pick up a cricket bat and find in its sprung wood a metaphor for the well-made play: "What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel. "Still, there is something adolescent about the intensity of Henry's ardor, whether for the sweetest pop music from the mid-1960s (his own teen-age years) or for his one-gal-guy idealism (the play describes Annie as "very much like the woman whom Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stoppard in the Name of Love | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...Penn Coach Craig Littlepage, things have been a little tougher. They didn't just have a rebuilding job to do in Philadelphia. They had to knock down the old house and start from scratch--completely...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Uncle Frank Wants You | 1/6/1984 | See Source »

Opportunities Knock...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Take a Little Off the Top, 4-2 | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

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