Word: doorknob
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LIDDY STRODE stealthily down the carpeted hallway. He paused every few steps to make sure no one heard him. He felt carefully along the wall until his hand grasped a familiar object: a doorknob. He waited again, his chest heaving. He tried to control his breathing. From inside his plaid polyester sport jacket he drew a Mickey Mouse penlight--a gift from the gang in the Company after a memorable visit to Disneyland in 1971. He struggled with the door knob lock, employing his special tools fashioned from stolen forks. It was a motel-style lock, easily picked...
...protested that they could become hiding places for muggers and targets for graffiti addicts. One citizen suggested the city return the rocks and consider his $99.95 offer for the junk in his basement, including "one used potty-chair, a tricycle with no handle bars, one broken ski, an old doorknob and six bags of leaves...
Four hundred dollars for a hand-crafted doorknob? It did seem sort of funny for a law-and-order mayor like Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, whose official salary is $434 a week. But according to a series of stories in the Philadelphia Daily News, he has invested more than $400,000 in a swank new home in the Chestnut Hill section-including $20,000 for a three-car garage, $30,000 for stonework and $7,000 for a patio. "These are pure and simple political charges made by a newspaper that blatantly seeks to influence the outcome...
...handshake becomes an ordeal. Turning a doorknob sends twinges of pain through the forearm. Swinging a racket at a tennis ball-especially if the ball hits off center-causes a sensation that some players compare with being hit in the elbow by a hammer. These are all symptoms of an ailment that has long been familiar to doctors and athletes but is now becoming epidemic in America: tennis elbow...
...starveling kitten of a comedy. The title is classified-ad shorthand for an apartment with a river view. The locale is Manhattan. Inspecting the rent-controlled flat are two strangers, Anne (Jane Alexander) and Paul (Jerry Orbach), both married, but with their respective spouses otherwise occupied. A missing doorknob effectively locks them in together...