Word: door-to-door
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Pressure had been mounting since June, when the majority of Soweto's legal residents joined the boycott. In July, vowing to expel the "incorrigibles," the town council began to issue eviction notices, but twice extended the deadline. Preparing for trouble, the comrades made door-to-door calls to warn residents that if they paid rent, their houses would be burned. Last week, when the council evicted four families, trouble broke out almost immediately...
...students traveled across the Greater Boston area, preventing lead poisoning, manning homeless shelters and rehabilitation clinics, interviewing hispanic immigrants and senior citizens. The philosophy that guided many of the programs tried to bring the health care system to the members of the community. Many of the students worked door-to-door, and visited the homes of patients...
...underline the law's value, civil RICO proponents point to cases like that of Barney and Donna Millsaps. Six years ago, a door-to-door salesman talked them into adding a room to their home in Norfolk, Va., assuring them loan payments would amount to no more than $50 a month. Instead, they wound up with a second mortgage and monthly payments of $148 for 15 years, a burden that strained their modest income until, less than a year later, they had lost their house. But the Millsapses along with eight other families that were hustled...
...City Councilor Alice K. Wolf is going door-to-door to solicit votes for today's Cambridge elections. Knock, knock. A voice from inside the apartment shouts to her, "Come in." Leaflet in hand, the first-term incumbent opens the door, ready to introduce herself, and sees a huge hairy man, lying in bed with a woman on either side...
...highlight of the fun, billed as an alternative to the potential dangers of door-to-door "trick-or-treating," came in the basement of Matthews Hall, where a Haunted House awaited the teeming tides of tiny tots...