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Word: refriger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then reporters realized that if real people instead of mannequins had inhabited the village, only a few would have survived. Inside the standing houses, Venetian blinds had been tossed around like bundles of spears, furniture hurled in grotesque stacks, cloth torn and seared. A refrig erator had exploded from the change in air pressure. Two of three steel industrial buildings were ruined. A doorknob had been torn from a door and cast half through a wall, so that there was a doorknob where there was no door. Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: REHEARSAL FOR DISASTER | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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