Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Carefully, he told reporters: "I agree with Christ in most of his teachings. Besides, they fit Communism. There is only one point where I do not agree: when Christ says one has to turn the other cheek. For me, if a man strikes me on the cheek, I knock his head off." Nikita's preference for knocking heads became clear after a visit to Douaumont, where thousands of the French and German soldiers who fell at Verdun in World War I are buried. As French Minister of State Louis Jacquinot launched into a polite speech recalling the sacrifices France...
...more serious than the many others President Arturo Frondizi has faced in his two-year regime. After TNT blasted an army intelligence major's home and killed his three-year-old daughter, Frondizi declared a state of "internal war"; police dragnets swept through the capital at night to knock on 1,400 doors and haul off 250 followers of ousted Dictator Juan Peron. Coming on the eve of a mid-term congressional election that no one can really win, the trouble pointed up the odd state of a democratic nation that is moving ahead, but almost totally without popular...
...Democracy," runs a European saying, "is when there's a knock at the door at 5 in the morning and it turns out to be the milkman." But the fists that hammered at the doors of nearly a thousand homes in France between 5 and 6 one morning fortnight ago turned out to be those of French policemen. Once inside, the cops informed their victims-refugees from a score of nations-that they had 20 minutes to dress and pack for an enforced trip to Corsica. At the request of Soviet officials, the French government had decided to clear...
...license was Edward L. Iannucci, 45, listed as an assistant in research pathology in Yale's personnel directory, actually the man in charge of keeping and handling dogs for medical researchers. The accusation was that on moving dogs to Yale, he had given them injections of barbiturates to knock them out. Nub of the state's case was that Iannucci (who once ran something that he called the Junior Animal Shelter in Hamden, just outside New Haven) had bought animals from dog wardens in adjacent towns for $2 or $3 each, had then sold them to the Yale...
...Post conceived an immediate and lasting dislike: "Richard Harding Davis was busy conning his Social Register and keeping himself and his silk undies in perfect condition for the rigors of the coming campaign." In Florida, the men got an issue of .45-caliber training ammunition, which "could, properly directed, knock down two men, the one it hit and the one who fired it." They held amphibious boat drills ("We rowed like centipedes...