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Word: hardboard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just about to give up their search of the lonely Amsterdam warehouse. Then, by chance, one of them spotted a lock on the corrugated-tin wall at the back of the building. The opening led to a false wall, complete with a secret door. As they burst through the hardboard front, members of the 70-man police unit suddenly came upon two soundproof and unheated concrete cells. Inside each one a man, clad only in filthy pajamas, lay shivering on a mattress and manacled to the walls. Three weeks after Beer Tycoon Alfred (Freddie) Heineken, 60, and his chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: One for the Hare | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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