Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skinned his finger on the typewriter shift key as the loud knock shattered the methodical clicking in his room...
Miss Valerie Poulos of Belmont admitted in Barnstable district court that she told Chaput that the house was her father's. When the pair discovered the door locked. Miss Poulos told Chaput to knock in a window, which he did. Once inside, they lit fires in two fireplaces, and were later discovered by a passing policeman who informed Chaput that the house no longer belonged to the Poulos family...
...about four-fifths can't meet the expenses, which start with a basic fee of $1600 for tuition, room, and heard. In a later survey, "Scan" found Smith offers more self-help than any other of the "Big Seven" women's colleges. Needy students, it reported, could knock about $250 off their college fees, for instance, by living in a dormitory where students did all the housework, including the buying and preparation of food...
...looking into the tangled affairs of the RFC. Casey's testimony did not concern the RFC and at times he was a reluctant witness. But pieced together with facts which the subcommittee already knew, his story was further proof that in Washington, an alert man could hear opportunity knock when the average citizen could...
...Full Gospel Assemblies in Christ Inc. Church of Van Nuys, Calif., got the word that doomsday was approaching. "Voices from heaven" speaking incoherent foreign tongues had brought it to him. He translated for his congregation and reported that a great storm from the north was going to knock off all mankind-all, that is, who didn't sell their property and flee to the mountains...