Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door swings softly ajar meanwhile...
Harlan's miners and mountaineers were astounded, and Circuit Court Judge Astor Hogg just had time to get his jaws ajar and allow it was "the beginning of a new era" when the Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen...
...Great Falls in 1945; Navy Cross; Korean War, 1950; author of "All the Ships at Sea," a naval autobiography, and "The Last Cruise." When he is not attending classes or telling sea stories to other Niemans, Lederer can be found in Lowell D-21, where he leaves the door ajar. There he writes his "mag articles" and talks to anyone who will listen...
Collective Measures Committee, "as a matter of urgency, to consider additional measures," then left the door ajar for negotiations with Peking by proposing a stand-by committee of three that would handle any bid from the Chinese...
Finding their original objective away, the Mount Ida bevy alighted instead on Richard M. Edelman '52, who had carelessly left his door ajar...