Word: door-to-door
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...commitment to experimental drama extends beyond door-to-door service. Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman says she gave the group approximately $1000 because "they had very inventive ideas" and "an unusual slant." She says the grants give people "a chance to experiment...
...success owes something to publishers willing to hawk her books outside Australia. But her own distinctive talent deserves most of the credit. After leaving her native England with her librarian husband and three children and settling in Australia in 1959, she took up a variety of jobs, including nursing, door-to-door sales, occasional stints of domestic service and eventually writing. Along the way, she seems to have developed a sense of what loneliness and isolation can do, even to the most simple, hardworking folk. Such people, earnest and a little unhinged, began popping up in her fiction...
...cleft chins are in this year, so the big brass decided to revamp the product. Most of the work on "Michael Jackson" was actually done on computers, of course, but in order to keep the public convinced that there really is such a person as "Michael" they sent me door-to-door to pencil in the new cleft on fans' posters while they were away...
...headquarters, the chief pressed on with his campaign. On Wednesday his men rushed to request fingerprints from a "suspicious" black man reported downtown; they found that he was merely an innocent man from Pittsburgh who was standing around waiting for his brother. Otherwise, Kelly's teams kept up ! their door-to-door canvass, collecting prints and handing out alarm horns to women in the blue-collar neighborhood where the rapes had been concentrated...
...trip from Boston to New York can now take more than four hours by plane, door-to-door. An hour to the airport, a half-hour waiting in line to check baggage, an hour in flight, a half-hour waiting for your bags, and an hour cab ride from Laguardia to Manhattan. Driving from Cabot House to the Upper West Side only takes three-and-a-half hours...