Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during a trip to Niagara Falls. After seeing the Falls, he started talking with the very cynical manager of the honeymoon hotel where he was staying. He was fascinated by the stories of "brides and bridegrooms getting out of their limousines directly from their wedding and having these incredible knock-down, drag-out fights right in the hotel foyer before they'd even gone up to their room." The hotel also featured what Rosenberg termed "very watered-down fantasy theme rooms...
Freshman defenseman Matt Scorsune added some comic relief to a depressing game, when he used his hockey stick to knock down a blue balloon which floated over the ice in the second period...
...think the real advantage is for students because [undergraduate TFs] are much more approachable. You see them in the dining hall. I've had students come knock on my door or call me well after midnight," Yagan says...
...woman who broke precedent and bravely crusaded nationally on one of the great social issues of the day, voracious book reader, shrewd observer who identified a massive shift in the U.S. economy and the job skills required to meet it, partisan of women's rights, winner of a knock-down, drag-out battle with a Congress that attempted to shut down the government and humiliate the President...
...White House official is worried that Trent Lott's Republicans are setting up two pins to knock one down. More likely, the G.O.P. will decide just to rough up both candidates a bit. If so, Herman has at least one advantage: one of her first accomplishments as a labor activist some 25 years ago was finding jobs for unemployed teenagers from Mobile--at a shipyard in nearby Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Lott's dad was a pipefitter...