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  • Defendant Carol Bond, having discovered that her close friend was pregnant by her husband, sprinkled caustic substances on a mailbox, car-door handle and door knobs.

    An ObamaCare Legal Precedent? David B. Rivkin Jr. 2011

  • A gleam shot around the car-door panel just before it opened.

    Three Houses Down 2010

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'FCC\'s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts 2009

  • You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts 2009

  • October 22, 2008 at 3:08 pm only to be lukkin at the keys dangling in the ignition, mockingly, on the other side of the locked car-door.

    Safety blanket - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Like, Gerard Butlers double chin (YES) and Joaquin Phoenix's birthmark-lip-scar thingy (and his double chin too), and Will Smith's car-door ears, Gerard's bunny teeth, Matt Damons chicklet's teeth ..... its weird, but I think things like that make the person more interesting to look at then if they looked JUST PERFECT.

    dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

  • My hand was on the car-door handle when something eclipsed the light coming in from the passenger-side window, throwing me into shadow.

    The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • He also revealed how infrared used for garage door openers and car-door locks could be hacked, using simple brute force programming techniques to decipher the code that opens the doors.

    Hacking Hotels | Impact Lab 2005

  • To be sure, it was rather chilly, now and then, when the opening of a car-door, to let in a half-frozen gentleman with a half-cooked chicken in his hand, admitted with him a snow-laden blast from without; and then the viands were not served _à la Soyer_, but there was an appetite for sauce and a certain gypsy-like feeling of being at a picnic that served as a relish.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

  • We found Jeru to be a pleasant city, with only one fault: the inhabitants will crowd into a car before passengers can get out; consequently the heads of the two columns collide near the car-door, and there is a general choke.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

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