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Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undeterred, the police got a warrant to search Gacy's house. They discovered a trapdoor in a bedroom closet concealing a 40-ft. crawl space. They began poking around in it. By this time, Gacy was babbling. He had murdered 32 young men and boys, he said. He had thrown five into the Des Plaines River, southwest of Chicago; the rest were buried under the house and garage; he even drew the police a map of the graves. By the end of last week they had uncovered the skeletal remains of 28 of the victims, some still with ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Do Rotten, Horrible Things | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...only do we call hero sandwiches submarines, but, in Baltimorese, closet is cupboard, and sidewalk is pavement-as in London. Also, a kitchen sink is a zinc, asparagus is sparrow grass, and hydrangea is high geranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1978 | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...Ridgewood High School sat talking about the death. Why had Hunter hanged himself? Suddenly, Christopher Mathieson, also 16, rose, said he had something to do and sped home on his moped. Sensing trouble, the other students ran to Mathieson's house. They found him hanging in a stairway closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Trouble in an Affluent Suburb | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Still, Dales and Fitzgibbons did get a glimpse at the world of big-time collegiate golf. Now they can put their clubs back in the closet and with a melancholy backward glance await the spring...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Swingin' in the South | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...dunce-cap lyrics of disco. With one platinum and five gold albums, Summer, 29, is the one incontestable star to emerge from the disco demimonde. Love to Love You Baby became a hit in the days when discos were not sprouting on every block, but were stashed in the closet along with the gay subculture from which they sprang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gaudy Reign of the Disco Queen | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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