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...case, Sonny is not likely to trip over his white beard in the next few years and in the meantime none of the present contenders will knock him out of the ring without a bazooka
...knock me off my feet...
Stilts & Filler. Two packs of savage short-haired dogs, Pavlovingly trained by Victoria Olkhovikova, line up every night to play soccer. They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly...
...Knock-on--this phrase is used to describe any situation in which the ball is passed forward and which is almost always illegal, meriting a penalty...
...exceptions to prove the rule. When he was suspended indefinitely from the National Football League last spring for betting on his own games, the Green Bay Packers' Golden Boy Paul Hornung automatically lost his fat $25,000 salary. So what happened to the tarnished hero? While his mates knock heads on the field this fall, Hornung will be riding high on the banquet circuit, raking in money from endorsements and jamming radio and TV programs. Barring an upset stomach or laryngitis, he should make more than $40,000 this year-only a slight comedown from last year...