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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That fact didn't used to bother the aquamen, though. Even as teams geared to knock off the powerful Harvard squad, the Crimson responded with clutch victories. In 10 years, Harvard has now dropped just five dual meets, including the last...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Still Sinking: Aquamen Drop Second Straight | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...from the original Super League group). Colgate, RPI, Vermont and Army. Each team will play each other squad twice in a season, and all games will be played on Friday and Saturdays. The championship tourney will still be played in Boston Garden B.U. won't be around anymore to knock off Harvard, though...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: One More Time | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson's chief competitors at Lehigh should be Dartmouth, Northeastern, and especially Boston University and Providence College. The harriers have already beaten Northeastern and Dartmouth this season, and Captain Felix Rippy says their best chance to advance to the championships would be to knock off heavily favored Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers at UVM, Lehigh, Shooting for NCAA Finals | 11/11/1983 | See Source »

...would have been nice to win, to knock off one of the top 20 teams," Lanzillo said. "It was a game we could have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Bow to Hartwick, 2-1, Crimson Second in N.E. Again | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara were dubious about the prospects for a "surgical" strike limited to the missiles. If the U.S. wanted to "knock out" all Soviet weapons capable of hitting American soil from Cuba, said McNamara, it would have to bomb "airfields, plus the aircraft... plus all potential nuclear [warhead] storage sites." The President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, fretted that such extensive bombing would "kill an awful lot of people," in which case it would be "almost incumbent on the Russians" to threaten a strong counterblow, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cuban Crisis Revisited | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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