Word: door
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Installment Plan. In Detroit, thieves stole the furnishings from a model home, next night returned and stole the carpeting from the house next door...
Spit & Polish. In London, David Wal-der was fined $11.60 when a constable examining his car found the fenders wired to the hood, a door dangling by a string, inner tubes peeking through the tires, wheel spokes that could be poked out with a finger, a steering wheel that turned 85° before engaging, then locked...
...value, i.e., one picture of a grinning Frol Kozlov toasting a grinning Dwight Eisenhower cannot help taking the heart out of would-be satellite rebels. Moreover, the Russians want credits and trade to build up their industrial strength. And while they talk peace, they make it clear in closed-door sessions that peace means a world where there is no opposition to their threats and bullying...
...lines. Soon a string of limousines pulled up. Out stepped the President of the U.S., the Vice President, Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a retinue of other officials. Waiting to greet them at the Coliseum's main door was a barrel-stout man with iron-grey, curly hair and a broad smile: Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 50, First Deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R.. the Kremlin's No. 2 man. sent by Nikita Khrushchev to officiate at the opening of Russia's flashy exhibition of science, technology...
...times spoke over local radio stations, was everywhere interviewed by Russian newsmen. Jotting it all down in separate notebooks, Harriman and Thayer spent long hours each evening disputing their impressions. When at last an article was ripe, Thayer would retire to hammer out a first draft behind a locked door, later return to defend it in heated argument over whether "entered a door" should be "went through a door," whether the Angara River was "blocked," "breached" or "dammed." Finally, he would dictate the approved version over a fading phone line to Moscow, for transmission to N.A.N.A. newspaper clients...