Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, the perfect knock-'em-dead gift for the man or woman who has everything: something to protect everything with. Not your ordinary cold steel snub nose, mind you. That would never do for kings, sultans and other mega-consumers. At Bijan's exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, where the clientele snaps up such wares as $95,000 chinchilla bedspreads and $1,500 bottles of perfume for men, self-defense means a $10,000 gold designer gun. "You don't want to be at home and have someone try to kill you," explains the Iranian-born proprietor, Bijan...
Israel's air-to-ground missiles are also formidable examples of Star Wars electronics. The U.S.-built Shrike missiles are designed specifically to knock out ground-based antiaircraft batteries such as the SA-6s. From as far away as 25 miles, the Shrikes' radar-seeking device can be tuned precisely to the SAM'S frequency probably recorded by Israeli drone planes flown over the area before the strikes. The Shrike missiles could then home on the target, effectively turning the enemy missile control system against itself...
Hilly is Hilton Cohen, who fought under the name Hilton David Cohen until his nose started to resemble a mine cave-in. Together they ran in the mornings. "Hilly had all K.O.s in the Golden Gloves one year. I said, 'Listen, Hilly. Don't expect to knock everyone out.' I was trying to give him my experience, but he took it wrong. Thought I was jealous. We had a big argument, and he went out and lost. Hilly doesn't know how to talk to people, but he's my friend...
...Everlast bag still swings from a tree, Gerry lost his first bout?to a girl. In a childhood cluttered with embarrassments, this was not an unusual event. "As a kid, I had so many complexes," says Cooney, tugging an ever present brown scalley cap over his eyes, giggling. "Skinny, knock-kneed?6 ft. 1 in., 130 Ibs.?pimples, big nose, big ears . . . What are you getting such a laugh out of?" He is still...
...sports? "No, in the world." Just before he gets into the ring, his friends say, his eyes turn to ice. "In the Jimmy Young fight, it hit me right before they announced me. I guess it's a split personality. I'm myself again usually just after I knock the guy out. That's such a tremendous high, the next half-hour. The most terrific half-hour in the world." Then, because his fights are short, "I have to answer those same questions." Can he take a punch? Can he go the distance? Cooney is of the opinion that some...