Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli air strike was only one of several disturbing signs last week of the continuing tension in the Middle East. The Soviet Union and Syria conducted joint naval maneuvers, a blunt reminder to the Israelis that they could be borrowing trouble if, as Begin had warned, they tried to knock out the Syrian missile sites in Lebanon. U.S. Envoy Philip Habib returned to the Middle East to try again to settle the Syrian-Israeli dispute, but so far neither side seems ready to budge. Complained Begin, a bit sanctimoniously: "With all due respect to my dear friend Philip, he didn...
...title before he starts offering me a shot. He's got to beat Cuevas first, and Cuevas is a great fighter. Cuevas will knock him out, and I don't want any more questions about Hearns. I want to fight Duran again...
...Grinch negotiated free-agent compensation, the main issue in the major league players' strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow and stupid, like Brer B'ar: "Ah'm gonna knock yo' haid clean off." If the Soviet Union had invaded and installed a puppet government in Washington, one could not imagine a more profoundly un-American summer than the one that suddenly seemed in prospect...
...genius for attracting important people to her crusade. For 18 years the elegantly impoverished daughter of Renishaw lived in unfashionable Bayswater. Her literary teas Evelyn Waugh summed up tersely as "stale buns and no chairs." Yet what names eagerly scrambled up the dingy stairs to knock on her "nasty green door." T.S. Eliot, Ravel, Diaghilev, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats were among the Olympians one might have met at the Sitwells' salons...
...harder and harder politically for us to do something militarily." What particularly worried the Israeli leaders was not so much the threat the disputed missiles posed to their reconnaissance flights, but the credibility of Israeli military forces in the eyes of the Syrians. After repeatedly asserting that they would knock out the missiles, explained one top U.S. official, the Israelis might feel compelled to act simply to demonstrate that their words could be backed up by deeds...