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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...popular culture has been immeasurably enlarged. In the fuddy-duddy New York Times, it has become acceptable to see oral sex on the front page--the words, I mean. Barroom rakes can be grateful for half a dozen new pickup lines, each with presidential cachet. "You make my knees knock." "I like your curves"--or, alternatively, "I like the way the hair falls down your back." And when all else fails: "Kiss it." Lawyers of the future will know to reach at once for the trademark wordplay of Robert Bennett, growling at plaintiffs, "This is tabloid trash with a legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Paula Has Taught Us | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...jiggy wit it, to do the deed, to shop-lift the pootie, to mess around, to get a piece, to lay pipe, to get it on, to knock boots with, to snog, to go down, to shift, to shag, to shag her silly, to shag her rotten, to loc the dinky, to plow the muddy road, to donkey-punch, to get some action, to hit that shit, to get some, to bunt, to get on, to shack up, to bless, HBI, to go south, to tax that ass, to hit that, to get laid, to hump, to bang bang bang...

Author: By Brian J. Norton, | Title: the truth about HOOKING UP | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...This is one of the few countries where we can do something like this and no one will knock on our door at 3 a.m.," Kelleher says gesturing to a display of bumper stickers that read "Inhale to the Chief" or "Newter Newt...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

Paramount/DreamWorks' Deep Impact (due May 8) and Disney's Armageddon (July 1) both depict space missions that try to use nukes to knock incoming rocks off their fatal trajectories. Armageddon is about tough guys doing a tough job in space, while Deep Impact (inspired by the '50s films When Worlds Collide and On the Beach) emphasizes the human drama on Earth. This is Hollywood, remember: the real-life asteroid is a mile wide; in Armageddon it's the size of Texas. Says producer Jerry Bruckheimer: "We always do things bigger." And faster; you needn't wait till 2028 for these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Worlds Collide...It'll Be At The Multiplex | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...more Giant Killer Asteroids out there where XF11 came from). It could erase only 80% or 90% of the populace. You know, getting back to the old model of a few small, isolated farm communities scrabbling desperately for a meager living might be just the tonic humanity needs to knock out some of its arrogance and softness and regain that good old spiritual edge we used to have back when we were all sacrificing goats to the rain deity and receiving stone tablets on mountaintops. We didn't worry about sordid political scandals in those days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upside Of Doom | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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