Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...complex and changing world, he argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have to aim at the future," he says, "if we expect to come on target in the present. Otherwise, our problems fly by and we just knock off a few tail feathers...
...late-at-night knock on the door supposedly has disappeared in Russia. But who can be sure? Hearing the knocks, householders admitted grim-faced men flashing badges and search warrants. In Moscow the family of one Nina Ivanovna was brusquely told that Nina had been arrested at her job as manager of a state-owned secondhand store. The callers demanded all of Nina's valuables, and her terrified mother handed over a bag containing some 250,000 rubles in cash and government bonds. Fur-Cutter Aleksei Aleksandrov caved in at the sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered...
...laude graduate of the same Munich school where Strauss was primus (top) of his class. They have a ig-month-old son named Max Josef, and Strauss has already bought the boy an electric train and, of course, made himself an expert on electric trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest...
...Epitaph (Columbia). The heroine (Shelley Winters) is on heroin. "Louie, please!" she gasps. "I need a fix! Ya gotta gimme a fix!" In this picture, unhappily, the story as well as the heroine needs a shot in the arm. Based on Novelist Willard Motley's sequel to Knock on Any Door (TIME, March 14, 1949), which made a substantial score as a Hollywood thriller, Epitaph is just a scummy rescrape of the sidewalks of Chicago...
...month. She didn't gain an ounce. (Is she tired of Dilly Beans!)" Radio listeners were subjected to a barrage of zany plugs interspersed with 20 seconds of weird "music to eat Dilly Beans by." One ad advised: "If your neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar, knock something off the shelf on the way out." So many customers took it seriously that some grocers complained, and Dilly Bean changed its advice, now lightly urges frustrated customers: "Move to another neighborhood...