Word: password
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Allen Ludden, 63, affable, scholarly looking host of top-rated TV game shows, starting with the General Electric College Bowl during the 1950s and moving in 1962 to Password; of complications from cancer; in Los Angeles...
...guilty pleasures of their youth. Horror comic books, low-budget melodramas, early rock 'n' roll-the trinity of '50s trash -have received the pop-cultural imprimatur from canny directors and writers who see their task as dynamiting the citadel of middle-class tastefulness. Energy is the password, anarchy the politics...
...pure black lizard at the pool and I have learned to whistle to him soundlessly so that he comes to me any time I call him. . . . I learned it from someone else. You whistle without making any sound but the lizard hears it perfectly and it is evidently a password...
...ever nabbed, had obtained the Telenet phone number, coupled their school terminals to the line, and probably by nothing more than trial and error punched out the right combinations-in this case only five letters and numbers-to link up with the computers. More shrewd guesswork got them the "password" to log onto and operate the machines...
...place was exclusive; when we knocked on the door, a man opened a little window and spoke through an iron grate, asking us in German for the password. My brother quickly stuffed a nylon panty through the grate and the door opened...