Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woefully inconsistent, game and the ability to say, "I once played next to John McEnroe at Port Washington, and he got so mad that he threw his Prostaff over the nylon netting and onto my court." (True story.) I also saw Jimmy Arias, the United States' next great player, knock forehand winners when he couldn't have been more than three feet tall...
Fuller's film is essentially a series of incidents. Marvin's squad hits an African beach defended by the Vichy French, and instead of facing a firefight, they find themselves making allies of these reluctant warriors. They knock out a hidden German gun in Italy and are awarded an alfresco luncheon by the women of the newly liberated town. They survive a German ambush and soon after help to deliver a French woman's baby in the tank they have captured. There is a weird battle in an insane asylum, and the death of a child...
Even routine activities like brushing teeth or reflex actions like sneezing and coughing can knock the back out of whack. The horror stories abound. In Alexandria, Va., Anne Moffett, 37, a mother of three, found herself stricken while bending over to make a bed: "Minutes passed, but I was too terrified to straighten up, even to withdraw my hands from the covers. Finally my mother came and coaxed me, inch by painful inch, into...
...first responsibility is putting breaking business stories on the Dow Jones news wire. His second obligation, especially if he has a beat (tobacco, steel, banking and the like) is writing news stories for the inside of the paper. In his "spare" time, a Journal hand is expected to knock out stories for the second front and produce regular A-heds and leders. These front-page projects can take a month or more, and the paper is lavish in its support. Says Jim Drinkhall, an investigative reporter in the San Francisco bureau: "You can spend 40 bucks a day on food...
...quick gouache or watercolor sketch for a proposed design, in later years he simply hired the best designers, the most skilled craftsmen, then turned them loose to fashion their individual pieces. He was a strong and controlling taskmaster. If a section of a glass window displeased him, he would knock it out with his fist. Every product had to pass his severe scrutiny and demanding standards of taste. One foreman told the story of a large window produced to the order of a rich client; it was intended to represent the view from the client's front porch...