Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sorensen predicted that before long one of the two leading candidates at the time will "knock out the other." "If Hart survives, he will be invited by the media [into the front of the race]," he added...
...their current patterns of interstate migration. Thus, say the Government researchers, California will pull farther out in front as the most populous state, with more than 30 million residents in the year 2000. The Census Bureau also believes that a denser Texas (20.7 million) and Florida (17.4 million) will knock New York, then shrunken to 15 million or so, down to fourth place in the state population rankings...
...violence is often absurdly out of proportion to the take. "They'll knock out a $400 window for a box of paper clips. They'll kill you for your belt buckle," says Patrolman Dennis Hansen. "They have no value system-zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...
...Lawyers in Love, the lyrics are much more relaxed, the titles of the songs (Tender Is the Night, Knock on Any Door) either evoke bleary late shows on all-night movie channels or, as in Downtown, deliberately call up echoes of old songs for purposes of dramatic contrast...
...statute is the only one of its kind in the U.S. Sergeant Bob Stocksdale of the state police's narcotics division is hopeful. "We're glad to see this law," he says. "If you get the narcotics dealer in the wallet, that will knock him down. But we just flat don't know yet how, or if, it will work...