Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, despite new security technologies, the apprehension rate for bank robberies has held at the same level for the past two decades, at about 65%. So why are so many crooks suddenly emboldened to knock over a bank? No one seems to know. Authorities from the FBI to local sheriff's offices agree that drug addiction plays a big role, but the drug plague is not new. They also point to the proliferation of less secure suburban branches, yet this too is a long-term trend that cannot fully explain the 1996-97 spike...
...knock on the sliding window each Tuesday morning, chances are that Gillette will be there to greet...
Around 1 a.m. he heard a light knock on his door, but by the time he answered, the person was hurrying down the stairs. White said he only saw the man from the back, describing him as 5 feet 10 inches with dark curly hair...
This season was in fact the best chance in a long time for the "other" Ivy League schools to knock off Penn and Princeton from the top of the standings. Dartmouth also had a strong senior class (of Sea Lonergan, Brian Gilpin and Kenny Mitchell), but finished at 10-4 alongside Harvard...
Around 1 a.m. he heard a light knock on his door, but by the time White answered, the person was hurrying down the stairs...