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  • —Iz I forgot to tell you that in lieu of “Izzy,” I also respond to “Goddess,” “Dream,” “Enchantress,” and, you know, “Knock-Out.”

    Save as draft Cavanaugh Lee 2011

  • —Iz I forgot to tell you that in lieu of “Izzy,” I also respond to “Goddess,” “Dream,” “Enchantress,” and, you know, “Knock-Out.”

    Save as draft Cavanaugh Lee 2011

  • While the plant company behind Knock-Out roses claims you don't need to "deadhead," or remove their spent blooms, I find the plants look at lot neater, and seem to create fresh buds quicker, if you perform that chore.

    Tough Love, Garden Style 2010

  • I grow several varieties of the Knock-Out series (zones 5-9).

    Tough Love, Garden Style 2010

  • Knock-Out roses are among the few types of roses that have done well in my yard.

    Tough Love, Garden Style 2010

  • But there are newer varieties that perform much better, such as Flower Carpet and Knock-Out.

    Tough Love, Garden Style 2010

  • The one and only tournament I visited was the 1999 FIDE Knock-Out World Championship in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace and there was plenty of space for players and spectators - hardly any spectators for the quarter-finals, actually, and I thought that was a shame.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

  • We aren't organic gardeners, so we frantically sprayed our Knock-Out roses, crape myrtles, daisies, zinnias and azaleas and deployed the hanging traps all over the yard.

    Readers Give Tips to Fight Beetle Swarm 2008

  • How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Now is the time for Hilary Clinton to take a bold position that in one brilliant, courageous stroke shows the nation that she is more willing to pursue true reforms of the two-party plutocratic political system than Obama is.

    How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama 2008

  • Ponder thereon, ye Little Brothers of the Knock-Out Drops, Five Hundred and Seventy-five Thousand books sold (and mine is twelve per cent. of the gross) while you are STILL drawing your little $18 per and STILL singing second tenor in the Anvil Chorus.

    Skiddoo! Hugh McHugh

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