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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar object: a doorknob. He waited again, his chest heaving. He tried to control his breathing. From inside his plaid polyester sport jacket he drew a Mickey Mouse penlight--a gift from the gang in the Company after a memorable visit to Disneyland in 1971. He struggled with the door knob lock, employing his special tools fashioned from stolen forks. It was a motel-style lock, easily picked. He had once owned a key to the door, but Liddy didn't trust keys. Keys were hard to swallow if you got caught...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...useful recommendations, especially on student economics. Edelhart talks money without a trace of the bland B.S. that he dribbles in the later sections on social life. Some of his dorm decorating hints prove useful, too, (where to get free posters), for instance, though others are absurd, like decking your door with a "personal symbol...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Too Much Knowledge | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...Someone probably had a key," Michael S. Stern '81, another member of the suite, said yesterday, "There was no forcing of the door." A locksmith changed the lock to the K-entry suite shortly after the incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vandalism at Eliot | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...horrible death, the victim of an inexplicable assassination. Desperate and half demented, McGee writes a note leaving all - The Busted Flush and Miss Agnes, the elderly "hand-hewn" Rolls-Royce pickup truck - to his old pal and counselor, Meyer, a famed economist who inhabits the next-door houseboat, John Maynard Keynes. The salvager plucks his life savings of $9,300 from a cache and becomes Tom McGraw, a retired fisherman. Following a ritual clue Gretel had given him a few days before dying, he heads for northern California, in search of a fictitious missing daughter who has supposedly disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Tanner came through the revolving door that is the Cornell QB system and took control of the offense after halftime, masterfully directing a 74-yd. touchdown drive. A number of times the Crimson appeared to have contained the Big Red ground game only to have Tanner drop back and complete a big gainer...

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Red Crush Crimson at Schoellkopf | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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