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  • employs the term in the sense of "hired thugs": "The door flew open, and in came Squire Western, with his parson and a set of myrmidons at his heels." The Royal...
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  • Up The Faraway Tree, Silky is introduced to Robin and Joy as a pixie: ″So Joy knocked—and the door flew open, and there stood little Silky the pixie...
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    Christopher Reeve (category Deaths from sepsis in the United States)
    only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. ... Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue...
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    vom Daumenlutscher" in the first story arc of their Doom Patrol run with the recurring line, "The door flew open, in he ran / The great, long, red-legged...
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    Bell Witch (redirect from The Bell Witch)
    something invisible. Two minutes later, the door flew open and fire spread across the room blown by a cyclonic wind with the coals disappearing as they tried...
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  • reckons were the beginnings of The Goon Show. He quotes the following from Edgington's writings: The door flew open and in crashed the master-spy himself...
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    knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage...
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    decedent Kirk Daly flew out of his Opel not only because the door popped open, but because he was intoxicated and not wearing a seat belt. Door switches are...
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    Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from The BDA (1906))
    December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Amy (an anagram of May) in her...
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  • can fix you up in no time". The chauffeur managed to get the car in motion again. When we reached home, the door flew open. There were a dozen hysterical...
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    seen in the documentary The Doors Are Open. A month after a riotous concert at the Singer Bowl in New York City, the group flew to Great Britain for their...
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    diocesan school. As the door flew open to black priests in the lead-up to the Civil Rights Movement, the Josephite order faced the possibility of changing...
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    driver's door flew open on the Mulsanne Straight. Woolfe was advised by Porsche to let Linge start the race, as he had more experience with the 917, but Woolfe...
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    landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared...
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  • of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone's chains came loose Ida Sand The Gospel Truth, 2011. Pete Seeger Live Performance...
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    smooth and the two front wheel rims were buckled; all four were replaced. 481 miles (774 km) The rear compartment door flew open and the spare wheel...
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  • deter the police from raiding the bar—the police inside unholstered their pistols. The doors flew open and officers pointed their weapons at the angry...
    116 KB (14,951 words) - 13:37, 24 May 2024
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    close the cockpit door. The cockpit door is designed to open in the event of an uncontrolled decompression, but the crew were not aware of this. The laminated...
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    sensationalise the incident by stating that the passenger concerned was "almost thrown from the train" as the door "flew" open. In fact nobody was near the door when...
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  • 1953 by Harold Mertz. It was originally founded as an alternative to door-to-door magazine subscription sales by offering bulk mail direct marketing of...
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