Word: knocking
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Though he tired Navy ROTC at Harvard, hedisliked the training. "I'm not a marcher," saysWilson. "All I could do was knock my hat off myhead with my rifle...
PowerAde makes only oblique reference to its primary target, Gatorade, in its commercials. But Pepsi will take the champ head on. Touting "gulpability" (achieved by using wide-necked bottles), All Sport ads will knock Gatorade by stressing that, in the words of a Pepsi spokesman, "there is no reason a sports drink can't taste good." The commercials will also contrast 1960s black-and-white sports scenes with contemporary color action to emphasize that "our drink was formulated a generation after theirs...
Like any successful coach, Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder knows this well. Though her women's lacrosse team has had the luck (knock on wood) to coast through the season relatively injury-free, it enters the NCAA national Championships this weekend in Bethlehem, Penn. with a slightly more odious, unshakable monkey on its back: academics...
Gentry and Leite also have to deal with pedestrians and motorists who often knock down and steal the cones they use to block the streets. "Kids knock the cones down and take them away all the time," said Gentry. "We easily have to buy 100 cones in a year...
...California, New Mexico, Michigan, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. And California and the South are already considered Perot's main strongholds among the white, middle-class, unhappy voters Bush needs. Sums up a senior adviser to the Bush campaign: "Ross Perot doesn't have to do well to knock Bush...