At 5am on 30 December 2014 – the day Bruguera was due to stage Tatlin's Whisper – she was woken by harsh knocking and an enormous crowd outside.
Was it a final lack of strength from a woman who has proven herself capable of withstanding the harshest knocks ("this political stuff is nasty, and it's tough", as Trump put it)? Was it a loss of heart?
An unusually harsh winter knocked the recovery off course, but there have since been signs, including strong job growth, that the effects of the bitter cold have dissipated.
At the time, no one seemed to know who he was and I was perhaps a little harsh in knocking him down for it.
Improvements in spear size and expansions of seasons have led to some varieties being less hardy, so a harsh frost would knock things on the head (a bit frustrating when you've waited so long for those precious pickings).
The fire, which broke out on Monday when harsh Santa Ana winds knocked a power line onto dry brush, has cost more than $12 million to fight.
Faced with this troubling complexity, doctors have fallen back on treating cancer like a game of Whac-A-Mole: find the harshest clone and knock it down, then repeat the process when the tumor reappears.
The harsh tax treatment knocks 13 basis points off your effective yield, if you are in the top federal bracket.
"If there is resentment, if they feel I was too harsh, then they can knock on my door and I'll discuss it with them.
Sixty-six seconds was all it took to turn what was looking like a decent effort by the Kings at home into harsh reality, getting them knocked out of a wild-card playoff spot.
