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Word: ajar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lieutenant Lawrence Murphy said the locker room doors were secured, but a student may have left a door ajar in order to return early from practice. It is more probably that the thief or thieves had keys to the locker room, Kevin McColl of the Department of Athletics said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Investigate $100 Theft From Locker Room in Dillon | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

...Vatican, however, left only one door slightly ajar. An official commentary on last week's decree noted that long ago women were permitted to be deaconesses, which some argue might constitute a precedent for "sacramental ordination." After raising the question of deaconesses, however, the Vatican office left it "for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope Paul to Women: Keep Out | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...Connally, whose strict neutrality in the Ford-Reagan contest has kept the doors to both camps ajar, coyly allowed that he would consider the vice-presidential nomination if assured of a major role in the Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Again, Connally for Veep? | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...broken into. Chased on foot by police after robbing a Chicago cab driver, he fell through the basement window of a house. In a dry-cleaner burglary in East Alton, he was surprised re-entering the place for more loot by cops who had noticed the window ajar. After stealing postal money orders in Illinois with a friend, he left a trail of poorly forged cashed orders and was caught. During two grocery-store stickups in St. Louis, he and accomplices scooped up about $2,000 from cash registers and passed up some $30,000 in locked safes. Arrested after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The King Assassination | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...hours and as much sex as he wants. There are usually small private cubicles as well as a large "orgy room" used for group sex. A customer can go with a partner, pick up a stranger in the orgy room, or simply go to a cubicle, leave the door ajar, and see who steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOMOSEXUALITY: Gays on the March | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

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