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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tough on 'Meet The Press,' but I never felt he was out to knock down government or politicians. He was trying to make us all better. And I think he really did that." - Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation Reacts to Russert's Death | 6/14/2008 | See Source »

...learned a lot throughout my training day. Specifically, I learned to wake people for meals but not beverage service; that people try to have sex in the bathroom all the time, and it's your job to knock on the door and get them out for their own safety. Also, you can totally ask for the whole can of soda. Thanks to a few hours in a pool next to a plane hull, I now know how to ditch a plane too. People almost never survive a jumbo-jet water landing, but if you didn't put 55 swimsuited future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scared of Flight Attendants? Become One | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...passenger, I used to spend my flight ignoring the flight attendants' seat-belt speech and wondering if they had been hot in their 20s; as a flight attendant, I could gossip about passengers and compare restaurants around the world with my co-workers. No one was going to knock on our lavatory door if we didn't want them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scared of Flight Attendants? Become One | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...world. Of course the notion is far-fetched, but the endosymbiotic theory of mitochondria, which posits that the organelles evolved from ancient bacteria, provides Sena's gruesome fantasy with a veneer of plausibility. Given the chance, he suggests, they might want to become their own organisms again and knock off their human hosts while they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellular Seduction | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...Obama become the first Democratic insurgent in a generation or more to knock off the party's Establishment front-runner? Facing an operation as formidable as Clinton's, Obama says in an interview, "was liberating ... What I'd felt was that we could try some things in a different way and build an organization that reflected my personality and what I thought the country was looking for. We didn't have to unlearn a bunch of bad habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Did It | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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