Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really know," said wide receiver Mark Bianchi, who will join Captain Greg Gicewicz, defensive linemen Rich Puccio and Mike Vollmer, offensive lineman Gerald Mahon, tight end Kevin Collins and linebacker Rick McIntire on the trip to the Far East. "We're going mainly for the experience, not to knock our brains out playing football...
...promises weren't enough to bring victory, as the House voted, 94-64, to knock the capital gains tax increase out of the huge tax package. The House, on a 93-65 vote, refused to reconsider the decision...
There, however, useful invention ends. The narrative Murphy develops out of this situation is less a homage to a vanished genre than a knock-off of two more recent successes -- The Sting and Prizzi's Honor -- that were funny, but in antithetical, unblendable ways. The movie veers uneasily from not-funny comedy to not-persuasive melodrama. Murphy forgets that the dialogue in old- fashioned crime pictures was as highly stylized as the settings. In place of sharply polished wisecracks, he gives us the steady mutter of the witless, unfelt obscenities that are the argot of our modern mean streets...
...baby is in a stroller. Back packs, "Snuglis," slings or in bare arms places both child and adults at risk for falls. Strapped in a stroller, the baby can easily be wheeled, look around, play with small toys or sleep. Someone could bump into the stroller, yes, and/or knock it into the pool. Therefore, children strapped in carriages should be kept away from poolside and be attended to by an adult at all times...
Later, in the Oval Office, he sighed that the Wall would stay until the Soviets tired of it. "We could have sent tanks over and knocked the Wall down," he mused. "What then? They build another one back a hundred yards? We knock that down, then...