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Word: unlock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared, in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, photographers banged away at the blinking, bewildered husband as he fumbled with his key, vainly trying to unlock the door. Then he gave up, returned to his apartment to let the lawyers take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Circles | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...Shackled. As she spread the alarm, choking black clouds cascaded through the halls and into the rooms of the sanatorium's northern wing, a two-story stone annex. Nurses and attendants plunged into the annex to unlock doors and get at the screaming, the laughing and the uncomprehending men & women penned inside. Firemen raised ladders and hacked heavy wire screens away from windows. George Lewis, a 51-year-old attendant, found the keys to one ward for the violently insane and led firemen to it. "Don't go in there until I go in first," he warned them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Chance to Be a Hero | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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