Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after reading, reflecting, rewriting and adding 100,000 words, Medvedev has turned Let History Judge into virtually a new book. Coincidentally, Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost has nudged the door ajar for its publication in the Soviet Union; abbreviated versions of four chapters were printed early this year in the magazine Znamya. Last month Medvedev came even closer to acceptance in his homeland when he was elected to both the new Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet, the nation's parliament...
When the heavy door was ajar, four masked men with handguns suddenly appeared and ordered the Wells Fargo employees to disarm and close their eyes. The gunmen handcuffed the four employees and began heaping the cash into a nearby Wells Fargo truck. Within minutes they had stashed $7,896,000, leaving some $12 million behind. The truck was later found abandoned under the Brooklyn Bridge. Said New York City Chief of Detectives Richard Nicastro: "They were very calm. And they did it in a very cool and collected manner...
...Francisco apartment after he had failed to show up for work at Masa's. He had suffered head injuries and was discovered in a pool of blood. The contents of his wallet were scattered on the floor, the front door was unbolted, and a rear window was ajar. Nevertheless, homicide investigators declined to say that the chef was a victim of an attempted burglary. Said Bill Cunin, maítre d' and general manager of Kobayashi's restaurant: "There was no one who was overtly anti-Masa or even upset with Masa...
...grammarians and those used to political ooze quickly realized, that language did not oppose all tax increases, just harmful ones. Indeed, presidential advisers hoped to leave the door ajar for tax increases "as a last resort," in the President's words. Arguing in support of the limited loophole was Drew Lewis, former Secretary of Transportation and Reagan's liaison to the platform group, who insisted, colorfully if somewhat disjointedly: "I don't care if they close the door completely, but I want to be able to get a screwdriver in if the need arises...
...particularly rich with promise for millions of women who feel tied to the home because of young children. Sarah Sue Hardinger has a son, 3, and a daughter three months old; the computer in her cream-colored stucco house in South Minneapolis is surrounded by children's books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting a PLATO grammar program...