Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knock came. First, two FBI agents entered Awad's room, then two State Department officials. After some chatter and praise, Awad was handed his check. Then one of the officials picked up the telephone, dialed and handed Awad the receiver. At the other end was retired airline captain Ron Hawk, the pilot of a Pan Am passenger jet on which a bomb had exploded en route to Hawaii in August 1982, killing a teenage passenger. Hawk extended warm thanks to Awad for his role in convicting Rashid for that murder. All told, the event lasted 45 minutes. Admitted...
...Mouse ears. Hollywood's animated ephemera are Big Business everywhere: in the Disney themelands and at Warner's Six Flags parks, at chains like K Mart and Toys "R" Us, in sports-stadium concession stands (Michael Jordan, meet Bugs Bunny) and on midtown sidewalks, where overnight entrepreneurs peddle Taiwanese knock-offs of your favorite cartoon characters...
...Carter and Roberto Alomar and Ranger Will Clark got one each. Tiger skipper Sparky Anderson, who chose Molitor, said, "I wouldn't even pause. I want to see him batting cleanup on a team where the first three hitters get on base 700 times. I promise you Molitor would knock in more runs than Frank Thomas or anyone. Molitor knows how to get a base...
Although no scores were kept, Harvard's top competition in the meet came from Brown, the meet's host and the team with the best opportunity to knock off the formidable Crimson at HEPS next weekend at Columbia...
...paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan, as it is done in Singapore, can knock a prisoner out cold...