Word: closeting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...victory was the closet win that the J.V. has had this year and broke the team's four-game losing streak. Its record now stands at 11-4-1 with only Andover and Yale remaining on the schedule...
...began upstairs when he tore my clothes off in the closet. Then he raped me standing up with a metal "clothes hanger twisted around my neck, choking me. I could hardly breathe. It was exquisite! Then one thing led to another. Those small attentions a girl like me cherishes ... A lighted cigarette stubbed out on my derriere, a complete beating with his great thick heavy leather belt. . . All the usual fun things...
Wrong Note, Right Touch. One thing all decorators agree on. Their job is to express the client's personality, not their own. Methods vary for discovering just what that personality is. "I look in the woman's closet to see what color her clothes are," says Ellen McCluskey. Says David Bell: "I look at the color of their eyes." Both regard the husband's participation as essential. "After all, he has to live in it and pay for it," says Bell. Adds McCluskey: "I've often found that he's on a budget...
Most neglected of all is the museum's 1,425-man staff. Shoved into windowless cubbyholes for offices, they keep electric fans running year-round to circulate the air. One darkroom, a converted closet, is so small that Chief Printer Anthony Allen "won't let anyone stay in there more than a quarter-hour." Corrugated iron roofing stift hides crumbling wreckage untouched since Nazi bombardiers blitzed London 27 years ago. To the delight of its readers, the Times recently discovered that "a race of wild cats" lives, loves and dies in the basement ventilating shafts...
...enter a mansion, regale themselves at supper, and retire to the sitting room. They're still in it a few days later. The door is open, no monsters lurk nearby, but half-crazed voices keep repeating--We can't escape! Before they do, two lovers commit suicide in a closet and everybody alternates between morphine peace and nightmares. The characters choose hell over free exit...