Word: backdoors
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Paraguay. Strongman Alfredo Stroessner is being propped against Castro's inroads by two big neighbors, Argentina and Brazil, both keenly interested in protecting themselves from backdoor infiltration...
While we are having our troubles with the Commies, the Pope's army is sneaking through the backdoor under the garb of their church's christening our Army units for their own saints...
...Backdoor. Richard King became a boatman by chance: he made his exit from New York by stowing away on a Gulf-bound sailing ship, and the captain taught the youngster his trade. During the rugged days on the Southwest border, after Old Fuss-and-Feathers Scott and Old Rough-and-Ready Taylor shoved Mexico back across the Rio Grande, Captain King and his partner, Mifflin Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi...
...exports to the U.S. market dropped from $68 million in 1953 to $51 million in 1954, and are still running down. As a result, price cuts within the industry and to foreign buyers have become so common that a special word has been coined to describe them: hintenherumrabatte, or "backdoor rebates...
...division ... to set them apart.'' His own three children, he added, were getting instruction in the Jewish faith outside school four times a week. In Lansing, State Senator Charles S. Blondy blasted the Bangor sessions as "an improper intrusion of religion in the field of government ... a backdoor method of bringing religious instruction into the schools...