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Word: crowbarred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With a crowbar, police wrenched at the hole, unexpectedly setting off a mechanism which slid back some steps and opened a hidden door. Inside the underground room, they found an oldtime Greek Communist named Nicholas Vavoudis dying from the bullet he had fired into his mouth. Near him was a radio receiver and sender, and more records showing how the underground got its orders from Bucharest, dispatched in return reports on politics and troop dispositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Treason Trial | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...crept along the dark lanes behind the chapel. With the help of a carpenter, they could have opened the locked door easily, but they foresaw that it would be just as easy for the police to close it again. They heaved at one of the double doors with a crowbar. Finally it came loose with a loud tearing and cracking, and they lugged it away to a nearby garden and dumped it among the cabbages. Then they went to a café and celebrated over coffee and Dutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Dominicans' Door | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there and have to be knocked loose with a crowbar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: Bonanza's Bonanza | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters ("This club couldn't punch its way out of a paper bag with a crowbar"). And last week he went after Rogers Hornsby (now managing at Seattle) as manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dust-Up in St. Louis | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Actually Using a Crowbar, Potter extends his spirit of unfair play to the game of life in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blitzleisch v. Rotzleisch | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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