Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson Wisdom (Nov. 6): you gave Hillary Rodham Clinton a "down arrow" because the candidates she stumped for in Illinois and Massachusetts failed to win their elections. But you failed to mention that it was perhaps due to her efforts that Chuck Schumer in New York managed to knock off Senator Pothole, AI D'Amato and Barbara Boxer was re-elected in California. And what about all the House candidates she campaigned for? Do you even have an inkling as to how they performed in the election? Given the outcome of the election, it's safe to assume that they...
...Once I got locked in the freezer and had to knock and scream until someone came to let me out," Boyadjiev says...
...Every game is going to be crazy competitionbecause we're going to be the team to knock off,"Asano said. "All these Olympic players are back.All the teams are getting filled with greatplayers. There's lot of parity in the league now;everyone is going to be very good, and we have tobe prepared for every game...
...from where I live, standing at the side of a highway and facing a creek that runs below a bridge, is an abandoned house that was not quite lost to a fire. No one has bothered to knock it down or rebuild it. Its windows are shuttered with gray planks of wood, shingles are missing like jack-o'-lantern teeth, and its beams are scorched. It would be perfect as a haunted house for the local kids this Halloween, if any kid would care to go near it. But the house looks too forlorn for games and too forbidding...
Growing up in the Harvard Houses, however, the kids of masters, tutors and professors have to be a little more creative. After all, it's not likely that the sophomore pre-med downstairs will be waiting for the trick-or-treat knock with a bowl full of Sugar Daddies...