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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course a man edged up to Stewart in the hotel lobby, gave him the password, and said "Follow me." He led him out of the hotel lobby and through the lushly landscaped gardens to a bungalow. At the door he gave a coded knock ?one rap, followed by four quicker raps, a pause, and then two more raps. It was a knock Stewart would use hundreds of times in years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

When they wheeled him into the elevator at Acapulco, the door malfunctioned. The door would close, but the elevator wouldn't move, and then the door would open again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...just stayed there, while the door opened and closed, until finally Hughes became aware something was wrong," said Margulis. "He asked me what the hell was going on. I made a little joke. I told him, 'This is your new room. We'll bring your bed in soon, and this is where you're going to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

AFRENZIED Sherlock Holmes opens his door a crack and peers out at Dr. Watson with sharp, glittering eyes. Years of heavy cocaine consumption have finally taken their toll; Holmes is paranoid, obsessed with the belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure...

Author: By Margot A. Patterson, | Title: The 93 Per Cent Problem | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...addition to phone calls, party invitations and Christmas cards, the anonymous student even received an unexpected relative. The first week of his freshman year a "dazzling blonde" presented herself at his door, he says. claiming she was a cousin. She spent several minutes chatting with him about family matters before he confessed he did not know any of the people they were talking about, he says

Author: By Thomas A. Mullen, | Title: Names Beguile, Befuddle, Bedevil Harvard Doubles | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

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