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Word: unlocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment dwellers with children, play space is at a premium. A dozen mothers, members of the West Hollywood Munchkins Play Group, convene three days a week in cramped West Hollywood Park. They unlock a wooden shed, pass out toys and warily eye the winos by the shuffleboard court and the gay men seeking casual sex around the shrubs and public toilet. "We complain to the police, and they arrest these perverts in the toilet," Abrams says. "Look, I don't care what they do, but I don't want it in front of my kid. We want a separate children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...have tried a number of things to combat the all-encompassing boredom which attacks the mind, such as thinking up novels or trying to unlock the primordial secrets of my brain through meditation, but such things usually resulted in stapling my hand to something or accidentally working through lunch...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Special Duty | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Comets are more mysterious. Unlike asteroids, which reveal themselves in the form of meteorites that can be pried from the ground and analyzed in laboratories, comets have left no known remnants on earth; they have been studied only from afar--through telescopes. (Scientists hope to unlock more cometary secrets when Soviet, Japanese and the European Space Agency probes fly past Halley's comet in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Incident At Tunguska | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...conclusion of the Columbia University blockade came three days after a New York State Supreme Court judge called the protect--a "safety hazard" and ordered the students to unlock the doors of Hamilton Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Our Readers | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...their children and the family dog were upstairs in the executive mansion in Albany last week when a neighbor, Julian Quarles, 25, paid them an unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: A Stranger in the Night | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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