Word: knocks
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...Usually in stories that I have seen written by fighters, they have begun by saying something like this: I'll win sure. I'll knock this fellow out in a round'. . . . This strikes me as the height of folly. I have to laugh every time I read one of those raves. "I NEVER PREDICT...
Benito beamed, encouraged the new Party, hoped that it would knock edgeways the adherents of little Don Sturzo...
...will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second-the lowest perceptible by the human ear. If blown by the powerful electric bellows, without any accompanying notes, the impact of the tone emitted would knock any unfortunate listener unconscious...
...present a magnificent robe to the Queen of France, has offered a handsome reward. In the village dwells a beautiful damsel, Rose-Marie. Her parents are very, very poor-in fact, the family starves, so Rose-Marie prays for help. As she rises from her knees, there is a knock at the door and the Wandering Woman, a mysterious figure, enters. She is well treated, adds her prayers to those of Rose-Marie. The secret is accordingly revealed, and Rose collects the reward of virtue, piety and poverty. The music. The libretto offers but scant opportunity to the dramatic composer...
...this is contained in the auto-advertising slogan of: "Don't Knock, Boost"; but to boost successfully something apparently has to be knocked, which, while amusing the gum-chewers also serves to maintain the world's greatest newspaper...