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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Knock on wood, though. Tomorrow the team faces its stiffest challenge of the season when it meets a strong Boston University and four other area colleges in the fifth annual Greater Boston Championships at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Undefeated Women Tracksters To Compete in GBC's Today | 2/5/1982 | See Source »

...ECAC play but then suffered its annual January thaw, dropping four straight conference games, including a 4.3 loss to B.C. at home before breaking for exams two weeks ago. Last year, the team dragged a seven-game ECAC losing streak into the tournament and proceeded to knock North-eastern into Section 64 But Cleary is to reads to make comparisons...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: B.U. Takes on the Champs | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Genuine fear pervades the city. People are asking their foreign friends not to drop by any more. The 4 a.m. knock on the door by the secret police is back in practice, although sometimes with the usual Polish twist. In at least two cases, people who were given the option of signing a loyalty oath prepared by the government or going to a detention center managed to persuade the agents who came for them to accept a more innocuously worded statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spirit Still Glows | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...land-based carnivore in the world. A full-grown male can weigh more than 1,600 Ibs. (vs. grizzlies at 1,000 Ibs. and tigers at 850 Ibs.). If the bear is determined enough, it will barge right in; few doors are much use against powerful paws that can knock out an 800-lb. seal with a single swat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Plethora of Polar Bears | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...cartoons, Jules Feiffer has saucily lampooned the neurotic as thinker. In previous plays (Little Murders; Hold Me; Knock Knock), he has caricatured U.S. society as a surrealistic maze of false values. In Grownups, he simply utters a scream of pain. - By T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scar Tissue | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

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