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Word: doors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinating to read all about how those brilliant designers in Detroit design doors that go "thunk." Detroit has engineered other important sounds into my late-model car. There is an impressive "budda-deh-buddedeh" in my rear axle. There is a scintillating "chatcheteh-chatch-eteh" coming from a rear shock absorber, a soothing "toketah, toketah" from my radio antennae and a "tssshhhzbbbd" from my radio. And I may well have the only door that closes with a "puh-lox-ette-kuh." I have been assured by the service manager that, "dats duh way der bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...between the two Communist powers in Syria ends. In Africa, where Moscow and Peking have also been rivals in the courtship of established governments and extremist groups, Guinea, the Sudan and several other countries find it difficult to cope with unified Communist pressure. The Soviets, certain that their back door is safe, are willing to take slightly greater risks in the Middle East, but still want to avoid outright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: If Moscow and Peking Make Up | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...manages to intrude defects on the play that it never possessed. Feydeau was to the French bedroom farce what Einstein was to the theory of relativity. With gimmicks and gaucherie, Champion botches all of Feydeau's intricately precise equations of who-is-sleeping-with-whom-be-hind-which-door? As far as ACT's trip east is concerned, a molehill has come to Mohammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Puppet Shows | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

When she walked out the door the war had not ended, but another beginning had been made...

Author: By Harry Samuel, | Title: How She Shut the Store Down | 10/15/1969 | See Source »

...knocked on the door and went in. She was embarrassed in the first place by the fact that she was supporting the Moratorium with her little deed. Carrying around the posters and the instructions seemed like some kind of wife-of-the-liberal-professor racket and she despised the image. But add to that the embarrassment of barking up the wrong tree and then getting barked back at and she was just about to call it quits...

Author: By Harry Samuel, | Title: How She Shut the Store Down | 10/15/1969 | See Source »

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