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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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YOUR KNEES WILL KNOCK TOO Halloween, that time of pumpkins, candy and little children in adorable costumes. Or maybe not. Is it us, or did the masks get a lot scarier this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head Rush | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Dylan Klebold lives here, and so does Cassie Bernall, and they can't help showing us what's on their mind, because that's the nature of teenagers. So come in only if you want to learn. All they will give us is a glimpse, but even that may knock the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Week In The Life Of A High School | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...fire departments, good equipment, personnel and response time are the best indicators of a quick "knock-down," firefighter lingo for quieting a blaze...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Spot: How the Cambridge Fire Department Earned Its Coveted 'Class One' Ranking | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...want to get caught holding an unfashionable belief. What's the news? But my purpose here is not to defend an everyday kind of hypocrisy. Nor, on the other hand, is it to defend the high tradition that runs from Socrates to Kierkegaard of using irony to knock people off of ideas they have long and lazily stood upon. That use, I think, isn't what's bothering Purdy...

Author: By Aaron K. Roth, | Title: The Importance of Irony | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...meantime, Yankees Suck has inspired its share of knock-offs. No fewer than half a dozen varieties of the shirt were on display in the bleachers at Fenway over the weekend, from the blunt white-on-red "Yankees Suck" to the effete calligraphy of "Yankees Suck," gold-on-blue...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: A Must-Have for the Fall Season | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

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