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Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patty was taken into a building and, still blindfolded, placed in a small, confining chamber. For a moment she thought she was going to be buried alive. "I was really scared . . . I must have started to do something because right away . . . they told me it was a closet." DeFreeze said she was a "prisoner of war" in the revolutionary struggle of the S.L.A. with American society and that she would be safe as long as nothing happened to two members, Joseph Remiro and Russell Little, who had been jailed on charges of murdering Marcus Foster, Oakland's superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...four sisters quietly followed her testimony. At one point a tear appeared on her mother's cheek. Patty described how four days after her capture, DeFreeze had forced her to make a tape that included the passage "Mom, Dad, I'm okay." DeFreeze had gone to the closet with a flashlight and a tape recorder and told her what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...identify herself in the midst of the act." Patty, his argument ran, was a normal, marriage-bound college coed of 19 when she was kidnaped; her fragile teen-age will was broken during her first six to nine weeks with the S.L.A., during which she was kept in a closet and sexually abused by S.L.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Piloting Patty's Defense | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak have blasted him for "fibbing." Manhattan's Village Voice has lambasted him in two pieces, implying that he is, among other things, a closet racist. The New Republic, which liked him in April, decided in January that "up to now, Carter has been unjustifiably considered part of the liberal pack." Politicians, especially, have seized opportunities to undercut Carter: when he recently referred in public to Hubert Humphrey's "record as a loser," Democrats of divergent political plumage leaped to Humphrey's defense. But when Edwin Muskie made a similar comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Doing a Job on Jimmy | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

Happy day! We can finally come out of the closet. Your acknowledgment of the value and enjoyment found in soap operas [Jan. 12] enables us Big Mac lovers to admit that we watch and weep along with Julie and Doug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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