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Word: screw-top (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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...airline representative, lives with his wife, daughter and twelve-year-old son, Jimmy, in a white-trimmed green ranch house. One day in February his wife called him at the office. "All the bottles in the house,'' she announced excitedly, "are blowing their tops!" Six screw-top bottles (containing nail polish remover, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, liquid starch, bleach and holy water) located in four different rooms, had opened and spilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Long Island's Poltergeist | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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