Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...they all got stuff, all five of the kids. I catch them now and then in practice, but it's not a good idea. They'll throw that ball right past your glove and knock a hole through you. I have trouble getting an infielder to warm them up between innings. Everyone wonders where the kids get all their confidence. You'd have confidence too if you knew you could throw hell out of the ball. It's like having a .30-.30 out there on the mound...
Authority Gone. Lumamba's followers promised cheering black audiences that they would get the white man's cars, houses-even womenfolk-when independence comes, and more than one Stanleyville resident was said to have answered a knock on the door to find an African asking to be shown the house he would be given after June 30. More ominously, Lumumba men produced a blacklist of Belgians who would be "eliminated" after independence unless they left the country. Sabena's daily jets to Europe were already jammed, and 80 special flights were scheduled to handle the rush...
...From a knock-kneed Brownie scout. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Vive Chicago...
...Arnie Palmer, the club pro's five-year-old son. Coming up to drive, the women players would chuckle at the kid, then look with dismay toward the drainage ditch that lay 120 yards down the fairway. At that point, Arnie would make a sound business offer: "I'll knock your ball over the ditch for a nickel...
...drive down the fairway. Coldly precise in his study of the game, Palmer is anything but stolid during a round: he mutters imprecations to himself, contorts his face, sometimes drops his club and wanders away in disgust at a botched shot. On the greens, bent into his knock-kneed stance, he tries to sink long putts when many pros would prudently try to lag up to the cup. Says Palmer: "I guess I putt past the pin more than most anybody. I always like to give it a chance. Never up, never in, you know." Says P.G.A. President Harold Sargent...