Word: doorknobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev Calls Marx `As Dumb As a Doorknob,' Lauds Conspicuous Consumption...
Iwas returning to my dormitory when I realized I had forgotten my key again. Reaching my entryway, I rattled the doorknob in frustration. I then noticed the door seemed rather loose, so I gave it a tug, and it came open. Just like that, without a key. Glad to be inside, but dispirited by Harvard's shoddy security system, I plodded up to my room and began to write...
Toward the end of the day, the slightest twist on the doorknob is enough to get a sea of tired eyes to look up. As parents arrive to pick up their kids, Katie quickly looks up to see if it is her mom or dad. Most kids have a pretty good feeling for what time their parents normally appear, so when a parent is late, a child becomes anxious...
House Superintendent Edward Dahlstedt inspected the room yesterday and told the roommates professionals would not be needed if they restored, the black radiators their original color, sanded a door and wiped paint off a doorknob, Belford said. Dahistedt could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...with painstaking and pained observations noting each character's clothing or the color of trays in the dining room. Thus the reader learns that Sarah and her boyfriend first make love "in Cambridge, in Mather Hall (sic), in the bottom bunk of a double-decker, his tie on the doorknob to warn away roommates..." And not don't even close to the end of the sentence...