Word: doorknob
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...gnarled wood of the Thai phrik khi nu chili bush, which was said to impart a spicy flavor to the opium smoke. Also on exhibition are dozens of pipe bowls, the bulbous feature that sets an opium pipe apart from an ordinary tobacco pipe. Roughly the size of a doorknob and produced in myriad shapes, the pipe bowl was a canvas on which Chinese artisans displayed their talents. Patterns on pipe bowls ranged from geometrical designs, such as the Hindu swastika (also used in Buddhist art), to whimsical portraits of Chinese roosters, tigers, dragons and phoenixes, to floral renderings...
...That coat I have over there?” she says, pointing to a gray parka hanging on a doorknob. “Exeter bought it for me. It’s the only winter coat I have, and I still wear it. They knew I was in danger of dropping out and going to back to Houston, so they always made me feel like I was surrounded by a million people who cared...
...There are some things in this room you might want to avoid, like the doorknob. Ohmigod, you touched it?! [Frantically dials UHS] I’m sooo sorry...
...Gave a “presidential” banging to campus doorknob Vicky C. Hallett ’02. Everyone’s had a turn...
...vain, afflicted with bad habits and perpetually defending his sacred right to self-destruct in peace. Compared with him, Woody Allen is a rock of psychological stability. In one of his best essays, A Plague of Tics, Sedaris recounts his obsessive-compulsive youth as a ritual footstep counter and doorknob toucher. Unlike the urban neurotics of the Allen school, he's a boy from the suburbs whose pH balance has gone acidic. Sedaris is gloriously bratty. Current events and politics don't interest him; he's a born consumer with no regrets, whose highest concerns are his wardrobe...