Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cruise the Metaverse, wander the Web and choose from among several user-friendly operating systems, each one rife with automatic help systems, customer-service hot lines and intelligent agents. The theater's subwoofer causes our silverware to buzz around like sheet-metal hockey players, and amplified explosions knock swirling nebulas of tiny bubbles loose from the insides of our champagne glasses. Those low frequencies must penetrate the young brain somehow, coming in under kids' media-hip radar and injecting the edfotainucational muchomedia bitstream direct into their cerebral cortices...
Make the masher pay! Elbow him in the groin, knock him to ground and cut off his... Uh, I mean, tell him very loudly and explicitly to stop so that everyone on the elevator knows. However, if he really scares you, you might want to tell someone about it and avoid the elevator at that time for a little while. You can call the Harvard Police at 5-1212, Assistant Dean for Co-Education Virginia Mackay-Smith at 6-5989, and Response at 5-9600. Don't let the bastard mash ya, tough guy/gal...
Driving to a Mediterranean seaport in 1986, Tom Darcy didn't realize he was part of espionage's wave of the future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep...
Hakeem Olajuwon pours in 30 as the Rockets knock off the Bullets 109-92. Page...
...decision to devalue the peso. Nonetheless, business leaders almost unanimously praised Clinton's move: International investors said the plan had likely staved off a worldwide financial crisis. Super-speculator George Soros, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland Monday, said inaction "would have had a knock-on effect throughout the world because investors would be shell-shocked...