Word: knocks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...midterm elections approached, observers began to wonder whether the domineering Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) might be successfully challenged for the first time in its 56-year history. Voters fed up with a stagnant economy and continuing official corruption might, some thought, help the opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) knock the P.R.I. out of the governorships in two northern states, Sonora and Nuevo León. But the P.R.I. did not even wait for the polls to close last week before claiming a sweep of every office worth winning. The victory was tainted by widespread charges of stuffed ballot boxes and intimidated...
...American, Chicago born," opens Saul Bellow's early masterpiece, The Adventures of Augie March, "and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." For nearly six decades, Bellow kept that vow. Dangling Man, his first novel, published in 1944, when Bellow was only 29, heralded the arrival of a new voice. Defiant, brooding, charged with a shrewd irony about our human prospects, it was a novel of ideas, a Europeanized American book...
Seniors Cecily Gordon and Annie Dell’Aria provide power out of the middle of the lineup, and will have plenty of chances to knock in speedy table-setter Lauren Stefanchik...
Although Columbia lost its first Ivy League match, the Lions are optimistic about the rest of the season, beginning with the chance to knock off Harvard...
...goal is] to win the Ivy League,” Scholl said. “We have some tough games coming up, and the game against Cornell is going to be the biggest game of the season. If we could knock them off, that would be huge...