Word: cupboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...takes a portrait off the wall and hides it behind a cupboard and when his wife enters the parlor, Mr. Manningham authoritatively interrogates her on the whereabouts of his missing painting. Getting frantic and confused, Mrs. Manningham admits that she must have hidden the thing, quite unbeknownst to her own conscious mind. Mr. Manningham's conclusion is that she must be crazy...
...magnificent 17th century palace-home of France's royal court until the revolution of 1789-for a fireworks festival celebrating the arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded across Versailles's famed formal gardens, one visitor secreted a time bomb in a cupboard in the chateau's south wing. The blast, which went off some time around 2 a.m., was verified by the police one half-hour later when a squad car made a routine check of the palace...
...northeastern France was easy pickings for burglars, who regularly made off with furniture, children's toys, sheets and kitchenware. After a dozen such thefts, Owner Lionel Legras, 50, operator of a local garage, fastened some shotgun cartridges to the inside of a transistor radio and locked it in a cupboard; he wired it to a timer that would detonate the shells 90 seconds after the radio was moved or switched on. Outside, he posted a warning: ENTRY PROHIBITED...
...evening in 1976, Woodcutters Rene Vermeulen, 31, and Andre Rousseau, 30, climbed over the fence outside Legras' cottage, forced open a door and broke into the cupboard. Vermeulen , turned the radio on, and the cartridges exploded. He was thrown to the floor, his chest ripped open and his right hand blown away; Rousseau, partially blinded, went for help. Vermeulen died; Rousseau, one eye permanently damaged, was charged with attempted burglary...