Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...will take more than that, though, for the Crimson to knock off the powerful Yale eleven, one of the four major teams in the country still unbeaten and untied (along with Missouri, Utah State, and New Mexico State...
...Scotland for a weekend of shooting, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan comfortably reposed knock-kneed on a shooting stick while awaiting the flushing of his quarry. Macmillan, looking the soul of a gentleman hunter, was a guest on the estate of Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary. Thoroughly relaxed by his recreation, he dashed back to Britain's best-known shooting gallery, the House of Commons...
...last years of his life. Bachelor Prendergast became deaf-"so deaf." his old friend Van Wyck (The Flowering of New England) Brooks wrote of him, "that he could not hear the knock on the door when people came to see him. So his friends took to thrusting a newspaper under the door, which they rattled back and forth till he saw it. Prendergast did not greatly regret his deafness. He said he was glad to find that people did not shout the disagreeable things they had to say. Besides, he was never too deaf to hear good news from...
Slow but Sure. Above all, Schwartzwalder is looking for the kid who just plain likes to knock people down. No team in the nation plays rougher football than Syracuse. "Some teams try to figure out the easiest and fastest way to get over the goal line," says Schwartzwalder. "Well, we don't concentrate on the easiest or fastest way. We just concentrate on getting there. We believe in massing our men, and we start at tackle and make the enemy defend that spot so heavily he'll be weak elsewhere. The only way you can run effectively over...
...classes at the U. of P. But apparently the boy could learn in his sleep long before the hypnopaedia boom, and he had a trick memory besides. With these weapons he stole a passing grade on his bar examinations and then started an allout, seven-year campaign to knock off every bottle and blonde in Philadelphia...