Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bronfman resumed his course as directed, finally stopping near a Burger King hamburger stand in Queens. He was told to leave his car doors ajar and stand beside the auto. He waited that way for two hours. No kidnaper appeared...
Before noon five Communist tanks, a dozen armored personnel carriers and truckloads of green-uniformed troops who wore helmets inscribed TIEN VI SAIGON?Onward to Saigon?swept down Unity Boulevard to the presidential palace. The gates had been left ajar, but one tank, followed by several others, smashed through the fence nonetheless, then fired triumphal salvos. One detachment of troops drove off in a Jeep with Minh to an undisclosed location; later he was brought back to repeat his surrender announcement before being whisked away again...
...that sadly ongoing saga of contemporary man fighting to stay alive in a world he helped make but no longer can quite control. Cooper carries a lot of keys to doors that have stopped opening. Mulligan and Roth make a great show of unlocking doors that have been ajar for a long time...
...mankind to meet up to the challenges of the future; this self-evaluation is necessarily subjective. The Human Prospect introduces the reader to the more predictable challenges and solutions of the future, and leaves the doors leading into the more irrational processes of self-assessment only slightly ajar...
...Dulles Airport, where a copy of the transcripts arrived at 8:30 a.m., six hours ahead of the regular distribution. Trib executives would not reveal how they got their early copy. Says Kirkpatrick: "We knocked on every door in Washington and finally found one that was slightly ajar." (The White House later admitted giving the Trib a head start because of the paper's plan to print the whole text...