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...offered to let me make Chanukah ornaments. I told him that it would be a fire hazard to hang ornaments on my menorah. We compromised and I made a nondenominational knock-hockey...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Chanukah in the 90's | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

...Germans, however, could never quite take all of Stalingrad. While they held air superiority, they were unable to knock out the powerful batteries of Russian artillery across the Volga. And beyond the Stalingrad cauldron, the Red Army was on the move. In late November 1942 the Russians encircled the city, trapping thousands of German and Romanian troops. Hitler had committed a strategic mistake. He had dissipated his military strength and caused tremendous logistical confusion by splitting up the offensive -- sending a huge strike force toward the Caucasus simultaneously with the drive toward Stalingrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in Europe | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...since antibiotic therapy was introduced in the 1940s, primarily as a result of failure to maintain proper treatment. Taming the bug usually requires up to six pills daily for six months. If a patient fails to complete this regimen or if his immune system is impaired, the drugs may knock off only the weakest germs, leaving their more tenacious, drug-resistant cousins to proliferate and possibly spread to other victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TB Takes a Deadly Turn | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...triple-teaming makes it difficult for players such as Mitchell to bring the ball up to shoot. At least one player is always slapping at the ball, trying to knock it loose...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Turnovers Plague Crimson | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

Leake is quick enough so he can position himself in front of rumbling forwards and take the charge, or he can knock the ball out of opposing centers' hands...

Author: By John B. Trainer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Changing Of the Guard | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

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