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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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They could hardly restrain themselves, waiting for the opening faceoff last night at Bright. The Engineers, boasting the East's top offense and almost all playing in their first playoff game, raced out to center ice for the lineup introductions, looking psyched to knock off the Crimson...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Halfway There: Icemen Shut Down RPI, 5-1 | 3/5/1983 | See Source »

...system says that anyone with a plurality of the votes in a crowded field cops the prize. But Boston dictates that a runoff take place between the two top vote-getters, so any candidate has to win over a majority of the city's ballots. Consequently, White can knock off five of his six challengers this year by garnering no more than 30 percent of the vote. Then, if he faces King in the final, the election may turn into a race issue, playing on the fears of Boston's obstinately parochial neighborhood...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: East Blowing Wind | 3/1/1983 | See Source »

...overall 4-8 in Ivy action. But the cagers have reasons to be cheerful. They showed that they can compete on a level with the best that the Ivy League has to otter and they displayed the courage to bounce back from a though set back and nearly knock off the top team in the league...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Cagers Drop Cliffhanger to Princeton, 79-75, Win Respect While Losing Weekend Games | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...after dark in the County Kildare countryside 30 miles southwest of Dublin, and Jim Fitzgerald's family had just finished dinner when there was a knock at the door. In burst five or more men, all masked and waving guns. Fitzgerald's wife and five of his children were herded together and locked in a back room. Fitzgerald, 55, head groom at nearby Ballymany Thoroughbred stud farm, was ordered to lead the gunmen to the stable of a certain five-year-old bay stallion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Horsenaped | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...acter, Eddie's love for his niece possessed shock effect. Incest isn't what it used to be. Furthermore, one doubts whether the current flood of illegal ah'ens cowers before an immigration official as if he had sounded a storm trooper's knock in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blind Passion | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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