Word: knocks
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...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...
...manager, Robert Arm- strong, an athletic young man who looks something like Jack Sharkey, could slap him over anytime for no purse. Absurdities include a gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which is held several feet away from him instead of close to the ropes...
...child he was independent, not to say ferocious. With his brother and their sister, he used to knock down their nurses, jump on them. They smashed shopwindows to get at cakes. At Trinity College, Oxford, young Richard got into plenty of trouble, was "sent down" after two stormy years. But his interest had already fastened on Oriental languages which he studied by himself with no other help than a grammar and dictionary. "He used to say that when he set out to acquire a language, he learned swear words and after that the rest was easy." Burton was big, bearded...
...taking motion pictures through a quartz window in a gasoline motor's combustion chamber and by registering the 1 pressure changes, Lloyd Withrow and T. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality of gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge progressively. This occurs in 1/250 sec. With knocking gasoline, the instant the spark starts ignition, the first burned fuel creates sufficient heat and pressure to ignite all the remaining fuel...
...February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths on his ship as it came up New York Harbor. There are still 800 other performers in the Circus, however-whip-crackers who knock the caps off bottles 50 ft. away; whooping cowboys; clowns who operate explosive Fords; agile gymnasts; "strange people from the far corners of the world." And there are birds & beasts without end -sprightly little dogs; pigeons colored like caster eggs; zebras that never quite learn their tricks; a sea lion...