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Word: unlocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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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