Word: knocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hate me because I'm beautiful. I was a Jabba the Hut baby for like two days and ever since then, I've been a lean, mean, pop culture machine. (Don't you love fat babies? You can knock them over and they'll stay there for days!) Actually, every one is holding their breath in anticipation because my mom has been a toothpick since birth and my dad started out a twig and got his healthy gut around age 20 or 21. So it's 50-50-am I gonna be a size 30 waist and have a flat...
Dyke seems just the man to knock a new sensibility into the sprawling bureaucracy. He comes from a commercial TV background--he was chairman and chief executive of Pearson Television from 1995 to 1999 after leaving London Weekend Television, where he was group chief executive from 1990 to 1994--and is, according to Jonathan Davis, media expert at the London Economics consultancy, "the hardest-nosed businessman in the British-TV industry." Dyke prefers to stress his high aspirations for the Beeb, telling his staff last month, "Our aim is to be a place where people work collaboratively, enjoy their...
This spring's knock-down, drag-out, sticks-and-stones primary between George W. Bush and John McCain had to be the most high-profile, rancorous and riveting GOP battle in most party elephants' memory. Now it's Big Tent time, with the first of several planned grip-and-grin summits between the anointed and the heretic going down Tuesday in Pittsburgh. How do these two make it convincing? "They'll start by heaping praise on one another for the press, and will genially agree to disagree on whatever they have to," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. "McCain will...
Twenty horses will bolt from the gate tomorrow with the panic of depositors at a Depression-era bank run, and the bumping and jostling that's sure to ensue could knock any of the favored contenders out of the money and produce a winner like last year's 30-1 Charismatic. So watch it for the drama--or if you're short on cash, hop the Blue Line to Suffolk Downs, where there's no shortage of opinions. But remember, soap operas don't often have predictable endings...
...Greed" puts five contestants on the same team and then encourages them to turn against each other through "the Terminator," which offers players the chance to knock each other out of the game and take their money after a one question face...