Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four of those together to score all the runs that Leonard needed. With one out, Darrell Porter lined a single to left and moved to second on Frank White's Single to right. Then, speedster Willie Wilson smashed a ground triple down the right field line to knock in two runs...
...students learned quickly that Academy Homes' two sections, one fronting on Washington ST. and the other on Codman Park, fought like mismatched neighbors. "We wanted a diverse group and we thought we could get it just by knocking on doors," Parrette said, adding "We were wrong. We'd knock on doors at Codman Park and the people would say "Sure, our kid can be in the program--as long as you don't let anyone in from over there.'" But persistence paid off for the volunteers, who chose 45 children and officially launched the program...
...morning. From airfields deep in Iraq, Saddam sent his warplanes to strike Iranian military bases, including Mehrabad airport only four miles west of Tehran; Mehrabad serves as a military field as well as Iran's principal commercial airport. The Iraqi objective was straight from the military textbooks: to knock out the Iranian air force before it could ever get off the ground. The effort failed. Scarcely two hours after the attack, U.S.-made Iranian Phantoms were streaking toward two Iraqi bases in the Basra area. Then, beginning at dawn on Tuesday, the Iranian air force launched strikes against...
...parallels between Ali's fight with Foreman and his challenge to Holmes go far beyond his excellent condition, however. Foreman, like Holmes, was undefeated when Ali maneuvered him to a humiliating eighth round knock out. At 32 Ali was considered too old to defeat the man who had destroyed the same Joe Frazier who had given Ali two tough battles. Nearing 39, Ali is again marked as a strong underdog to the much younger Holmes, who twice easily defeated Earnie Shavers after Shavers had given Ali a real scare in September...
...only hope for Holmes, then, is an early knock out. That's just what he and many experts predict. But Ali has been hit by far harder punchers than Holmes--Frazier, Liston, Foreman, Shavers--and while he's been down, he's never been in danger of being knocked out. I don't think he can be knocked out--not even at 38. Ali's greatest strength is his ability to take a punch; Holmes's blows will pose no problem...