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  2. It! The Terror from Beyond Space - Wikipedia

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    It easily crashes through the door and escapes. The creature is so strong that it can tear through the metal hatches separating each of the ship's levels. The survivors (except for an injured crewman, who is trapped below in a spot inaccessible to the creature) retreat to the control room on the topmost deck.

  3. Crash bar - Wikipedia

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    A crash bar (also known as a panic exit device, panic bar, or bump bar) [1] [2] is a type of door opening mechanism which allows users to open a door by pushing a bar. While originally conceived as a way to prevent crowd crushing in an emergency, crash bars are now used as the primary door opening mechanism in many commercial buildings.

  4. Door breaching - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. Marine performs a ballistic breach of a padlocked door using a combat shotgun. Door breaching is a process used by military, police, or emergency services to force open closed or locked doors. A wide range of methods are available depending on the door's opening direction (inward or outward), construction materials, etc., and one or more ...

  5. Freeing a Sticking Door - AOL

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    Doors stick when the hinges sag, when the door frame shifts, or when humidity causes the door and door frame to swell. If the door seems to be sagging within the frame, make sure the hinge screws ...

  6. Suicide door - Wikipedia

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    A suicide door on a Delahaye Type 135 Lincoln Continental with rear suicide doors, left-side doors open. A suicide door is an automobile door hinged at its rear rather than the front. [1] Such doors were originally used on horse-drawn carriages [2] but are rarely found on modern vehicles, primarily because they are less safe than front-hinged ...

  7. Stinking - Wikipedia

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    Stinking may refer to: Having an unpleasant odor; Stinking Creek (disambiguation) Stinking Lake (New Mexico) Stinking Point, a cape in Maryland and Virginia;

  8. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    stickshift, stick (car with) manual transmission, as opposed to an automatic (UK and US: gear stick or gear lever for the stick; manual for the car) stool pigeon, stoolie police informer (UK: grass) (from the use of captive birds as hunting decoys) stop light (UK and US: traffic light) streetcar

  9. Stink bomb - Wikipedia

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    A stink bomb that could be launched with arrows was invented by Leonardo da Vinci. [2]The 1972 U.S. presidential campaign of Edmund Muskie was disrupted at least four times in Florida in 1972 with the use of stink bombs during the Florida presidential primary. [3]