Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...while I was passing bills." His voice had an edge of bitterness in it, betraying his sense of grievance, his not-so-secret dislike for "young Jack," and his awareness that the dislike is mutual. (Kennedy had let it be known that, if elected President, he would try to knock Johnson off his majority leader perch...
...when the campaign script calls for their special talents, there are the glamorous Kennedy sisters: tawny-haired Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 38; leggy Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 36, wife of the movie star; and Jean Kennedy Smith, 32, the slim, tanned baby sister of the family. Together and separately, the sisters knock on doors, preside over kaffeeklatsches, and shed their charm at political banquets, receptions and rallies. And finally, there is Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 69, who willingly pitches in (sometimes in French, if the occasion calls for it) whenever her hard-running son needs...
...throw his paralyzing right hand; defensively, he moved back quickly from an attack. To keep Johansson from getting set, Patterson planned to press him constantly, throwing a stinging left jab from his new stance. Warned Florio: "Leave Johansson alone in the center of the ring, and he'll knock your head off." In close, Patterson hoped to lower Johansson's guard with flurries of body punches, then use left hooks to catch up with the retreating champion and finish...
...editor puts through a call to a lover she has lost, a pleasant but bored businessman (Ulf Palmer), and persuades him to see, her again. Caught in a mood between renascence and relapse, they make love in her hotel room. Abruptly he decides to go away with her. A knock comes at the door; his wife (Inga Landgre) walks in. Calmly and with devastating insight, the wife warns the mistress to break off the affair, not for the wife's sake but for her own. "He will stay with me, you know. Not because he loves me more...
...There appears to be justification for 'sensible' bullishness," reported Herbert H. Weitsman of L. F. Rothschild & Co. last week. This cautious appraisal illustrated Wall Street's changing mood. Only a month ago, traders sat in their storm cellars, waiting for the market squall that would knock stocks lower and lower. Since then, noticing patches of blue in the sky, they have gradually emerged. Most Streeters last week felt that the market was not going to take a hard fall, and may even be headed for a strong summer rally. Last week the market rose for the fifth...