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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gypsy Rose), added a chorus of little boys, who often "had very little talent because Mother didn't expect to pay them." The act packed 'em in across Pantages' corn-fed circuit. "God is watching over our little act," Mother reassured everyone. "He won't knock vaudeville out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Saga of Dainty June | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Midnight Knock. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, by the tightest of decisions (5-4), upheld the fine and the 1801 Baltimore ordinance, and ruled that the health inspector's visit did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guaranteed "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Case of the Baltimore Rats | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...officials from seizing evidence to be used against the householder in a criminal case without due process of law. "Giving the fullest scope to this constitutional right to privacy, its protection cannot be here invoked . . . No evidence for criminal prosecution is sought to be seized . . . Here was no midnight knock on the door but an orderly visit in the middle of the afternoon . . . Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places . . . is of indispensable importance to the maintenance of community health, a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Case of the Baltimore Rats | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...other way. [Laughter..] It sounds amusing, my lords, but it is not so amusing-really. I got bored with it. I took hold of her arms and put her on one side and tried to walk on. Whereupon she attacked me with her brolly and tried to knock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...ready to take over things again. But the unexpected happened at long last: one of the girls talked. Ill, exhausted and unwanted after ten years' labor for the Messinas, 39-year-old Edna Kallman told the police that Attilio hired a maid to watch her, and to knock on her bedroom door if she spent more than ten minutes with a client. Once, when she complained of having to work daily, in sickness and in health, he shouted: "I'm tired of this! I could get a 17-year-old who would work harder than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Free Enterprisers | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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