Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conversely, gossip seems to cherish a democratic, even subversive impulse: it likes to knock down authority a little. That is why royal families make their servants sign oaths not to write (gossip) about what goes on in the private quarters...
Sociologists should not be surprised that college lovers frequently knock each other around [Sept. 21]. A generation that feels free to cohabit at first tumescence, must feel equally free to react physically when angered...
...before the teachers' union acted on the proposal, the chancellor "ran out of patience and decided to knock down" the package of concessions, Fabbricante said...
Nixon: They 've got guys who'II go in and knock their heads...
...first order. A head-butting confrontation between the Supreme Court and Congress would be unavoidable. And it would be impossible for either adversary in such a conflict to come out a clear winner. It would be simple, of course, for any federal court to take the first opportunity and knock down court-stripping acts themselves as unconstitutional. Yet such an action could only result in increased resentment among certain elements of the public and probably a heightened tendency toward further vindictiveness in the Congress. If the court-stripping acts actually stuck-as hard as that is to imagine-Congress might...